Bernard Owen SMITH

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SMITH, Bernard Owen

Service Numbers:	V245281, V245281, VX110317
Enlisted:	9 February 1942
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, 20 January 1924
Home Town:	Bendigo, Greater Bendigo, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Dromana, Victoria, Australia, 11 September 1990, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Melbourne
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World War 2 Service

9 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V245281
28 Aug 1942:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, V245281
29 Aug 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX110317
15 Feb 1946:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, VX110317

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Signalman Bernard Owen Smith (Service Nos:V245281/VX110317) initially served in the ACMF from 9 February 1942 to 28 August 1942 before enlisting 'in the field' in QLD in the AIF on 29 August 1942. Signalman Smith - graded Linesman - served in the Torres Strait Islands (14 September 1943 - 28 January 1944) and Darwin NT (27 April 1944 - 19 March 1945), and was attached to 1 Australian Line Construction Group at Discharge on 15 February 1946.

Born in Bendigo, Victoria in 1924, Bernard was the youngest of two children of Bernard Owen Smith Snr (b1881 in Melbourne, Victoria) and Honora (Nora) Josephine Briggs (b1896 in Ecucha, Victoria). Bernard Snr (a Labourer) and Nora married in 1921 in Bendigo, where they settled and raised their family and Bernard Snr was a Labourer.

Bernard (aka Minogue and Minogue-Smith) was working in Bendigo as a Labourer when he enlsited in the Army in 1942. Following his Discharge, he was working as a Gardener in 1949 in Mornington, where he married Phyllis Jean Hurley (b1925 in Mornington, Victoria). Bernard and Phyllis settled in Mornington, where they raised their family and Bernard worked as a Gardener and 'around the country' (NAA; 1960) as a Shearer. Bernard died in 1990 and Phyllis in 2015.

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