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Robert Brown SMART

Regimental number5083
Place of birthDundee, Scotland
Other trainingGymnastic Instructor, Railway Institute.
Age on arrival in Australia26
ReligionPresbyterian
OccupationCar and waggon lifter
AddressMidland Junction, Western Australia
Marital statusMarried
Age at embarkation31
Next of kinWife, Mrs Jeanie Smart, Sayer Street, Midland Junction, Western Australia
Previous military serviceIn Highland Light Infantry for 190 days.
Enlistment date6 March 1916
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name28th Battalion, 13th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/45/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Fremantle, Western Australia, on board HMAT A48 Seang Bee on 18 July 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll28th Battalion
FateDied of wounds 25 September 1917
Place of death or woundingPolygon Wood, Ypres, Belgium
Age at death33
Age at death from cemetery records33
Place of burialLijssenthoek Military Cemetery (Plot XXV, Row F, Grave No. 8), Belgium
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
114
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Robert and Ellen SMART; husband of Jeanie SMART, 153 Heytesbury Road, Subiaco, Western Australia
Other details

War service: Western Front

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal

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