| Regimental number | 3268 |
| Place of birth | Oakleigh, Victoria |
| School | Sunny Hills State School, Victoria |
| Religion | Church of England |
| Occupation | Clerk |
| Address | Vincent Street, Surrey Hills, Victoria |
| Marital status | Single |
| Age at embarkation | 22 |
| Height | 5' 5.5" |
| Weight | 144 lbs |
| Next of kin | Father, Charles A Smith, Vincent Street, Surrey Hills, Victoria |
| Previous military service | Served in the 48th Infantry, Citizen Military Forces, Kooyong. |
| Enlistment date | |
| Place of enlistment | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Rank on enlistment | Private |
| Unit name | 24th Battalion, 7th Reinforcement |
| AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/41/2 |
| Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A73 Commonwealth on |
| Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
| Unit from Nominal Roll | 8th Battalion |
| Fate | Killed in Action |
| Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
| Age at death | 20.10 |
| Age at death from cemetery records | 20 |
| Place of burial | No known grave |
| Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 7), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
| Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 54 |
| Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Charles and Helen SMITH, 'Cloverdale', Lancefield, Victoria. Native of Oakleigh, Victoria |
| Family/military connections | Brothers: 502 Harold Pascoe SMITH [name does not appear on Nominal Roll]; [819] Lt Kenneth Ansell SMITH, 8th Bn, returned to Australia, 23 October 1918. |
| Other details |
War service: Egypt, Western Front Allotted to and proceeded to join 8th Bn, Serapeum, 24 February 1916. Proceeded from Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 26 March 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 31 March 1916. Sick to hospital, 23 April 1916; admitted to 7th Casualty Clearing Station, 29 April 1916 (catarrh); transferred to Australian Hospital, 1 May 1916 (bronchitis); to England, 10 June 1916, and admitted to 1st Eastern General Hospital; to Australian Convalescent Hospital, Woodcote Park, Epsom, 7 July 1916; proceeded on furlough, 14 September 1916. Proceeded overseas to France, 11 December 1916; rejoined unit, 23 January 1917. Admitted to 3rd Field Ambulance, 7 May 1917 (pyrexia, unknown origin); transferred to 5th Division Rest Station, 11 May 1917; discharged to duty, 24 May 1917; rejoined unit, 25 May 1917. Reported wounded and missing in action, Belgium, 4 October 1917; Court of Enquiry subsequently determined fate as killed in action. Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |