John Baxter SMITH

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SMITH, John Baxter

Service Number:	466
Enlisted:	27 August 1914
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, August 1882
Home Town:	Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Flemings Terrace, Newcastle, New South Wales, 30 January 1942, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-31. 88.
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World War 1 Service

27 Aug 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 466, 2nd Infantry Battalion
18 Oct 1914:	Involvement Private, 466, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: ''
18 Oct 1914:	Embarked Private, 466, 2nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney
18 Oct 1918:	Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 466, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 2nd MD

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Biography contributed by Evan Evans

From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery.

An Original Anzac resting at Sandgate Cemetery.

81 years ago today, on Saturday afternoon of the 31st January 1942, Private John Baxter Smith, 2nd Battalion (Reg No-466), labourer from Flemings Terrace, Newcastle, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 59 or 60. ANGLICAN 1-31. 88. Not married.

Born at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England about 1881 to ? and O Smith of 7 Oak Street, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom, John enlisted on the 27th August 1914 at Randwick, N.S.W.

Admitted to hospital 29.7.1915 (diarrhoea), 9.11.1917 (injury to right knee), 7.1.1918 (synovitis right knee).
On leave to France from the 8.5.1916 to the 18.5.1916.

John returned home on the 29th September 1918, being discharged medically unfit on the 15th October 1918.

Mr. Smith’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name not located inscribed on any other known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.

I have placed poppies at the gravesite in remembrance of John’s service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.

Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.

For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/

Lest We Forget.

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