Stuart Henry Thomson SMART

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SMART, Stuart Henry Thomson

Service Number:	NX54281
Enlisted:	27 June 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ararat, Victoria, Australia, 16 August 1913
Home Town:	Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Factory Worker
Died:	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3 March 1963, aged 49 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Templestowe Cemetery and Memorial Gardens, Victoria
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 2 Service

27 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX54281, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
18 Feb 1941:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX54281, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion, ex Sydney to Singapore per HMT QM
13 Apr 1942:	Imprisoned
29 Oct 1945:	Embarked Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX54281, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion, to Melbourne per Karoa
22 Jan 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, NX54281, 2nd/20th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Stuart was the third of four children of Thomas Henry Smart (b1879 in Ararat, Victoria) and Susan (Susie) Golding Thomson (b1876 in Buninyong, Victoria). Thomas - a Miner - and Susie married in 1910 in Ararat, Victoria where they settled and raised their family. Thomas later worked as a Plasterer.

Stuart - a Clerk in Melbourne, Victoria - served with the Militia (Sapper; Service No:443033) with 34th Fortress Coy RAE in 1936 and 1937. In June 1940 he enlisted with the Australian Army (Sapper; Service No:NX54281) with 2/20th Infantry Battalion. He was recorded as MiA on 13 April 1942 - a PoW of the Japanese in Malaya. Stuart was recovered from the Japanese on 18 September 1945 and was Discharged in January 1946. Brother Lionel (Private; Service No:VX21856) and Brothers-in-Law William John Downie (Leading Aircraftman: Service No:59750) and Keith Oswald Clyde Abson (Private; Service No:VX21285) also served in WWII.

Keith returned to Melbourne, Victoria and was working as a Clerk when he married Kathleen Maud Roberts (b1914 in Melbourne, Victoria) in 1958. They settled in Melbourne where Stuart worked as a Mail Officer. he died in 1983 and Kathleen died in 1989.

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