SMITH, Lyle Joseph
| Service Number: | V187335 |
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| Enlisted: | 16 June 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Not yet discovered |
| Born: | Ulverstone, Tasmania, Australia, 22 May 1924 |
| Home Town: | Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Unemployed |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 December 1985, aged 61 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 16 Jun 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V187335 | |
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| 16 Jul 1943: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V187335 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Private Lyle Joseph Smith (Service No:V187335) served in the ACMF from 16 June 1942 to 16 July 1943 with 28 Anti Aircraft Battery. Private Smith was Discharged for giving a false declaration on his Attestation Papers - he was underage. On Discharge, Private Smith was sent to Morning Star Reformatory until 1945. Private Smith was one of seven siblings - Reg, Jack, Allan, Leo, Ron and Max - who served in WWII.
Lyle (aka Lisle) was born in Ulverton, Tasmania in 1924, tenth of thirteen children of Percy William Smith (b1884 in Morven, Tasmania) and Florence Louisa Hampton (b1883 in George Town, Tasmania). Percy (a Blacksmith) and Florence married in 1913 in Ulverstone, where they settled and raised their family and Percy worked as a Blacksmith and Labourer - in 1917/1918 Percy served in WWI (Private; Service No:8057). In the early 1920s Percy and Florence moved to Victoria with their family, where they settled in Melbourne and Percy worked as a Labourer and Motor Driver.
Lyle was unemployed in Melbourne in 1942 when he enlisted in the Army. Following his release from the Reformatory, Lyle settled in Melbourne, where he worked as a Machinist. Lyle died in 1985.