Stephen Joseph SMITH

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SMITH, Stephen Joseph

Service Numbers:	Not yet discovered
Enlisted:	16 December 1915
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	Divisional Ammunition Column
Born:	Perth, Western Australia, 4 August 1880
Home Town:	Perth, Western Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Perth, Western Australia, 6 January 1956, aged 75 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia
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World War 1 Service

16 Dec 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, 10th Light Horse Regiment
16 Feb 1916:	Involvement 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: ''
16 Feb 1916:	Embarked 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Warilda, Fremantle
28 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Divisional Ammunition Column
6 Jun 1916:	Embarked AIF WW1, Second Lieutenant, Divisional Ammunition Column, embarked Alexandria for Marseilles on board Oriana
23 Aug 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Divisional Ammunition Column
12 May 1917:	Embarked AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Divisional Ammunition Column, embarked England for Albany per HT Wiltshire
9 Jul 1917:	Discharged AIF WW1, Lieutenant, Divisional Ammunition Column

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lieutenant Stephen Joseph Smith was serving as 2nd Lieutenant with 10th Light Horse Regiment (Militia) when he enlisted in the AIF on 16 December 1915 and embarked from Fremantle for Suez on board HMAT A69 Warilda with 10th Light Horse Regiment on 16 February 1916. Transferred to 4th Divison Ammunition Column in Suez, 2nd Lieutenant embarked from Alexandria for Marseilles on 6 June 1916 on board the Oriana and was promoted to Lieutenant on 23 August 1916. Lieutenant Smith embarked from England for Albany WA on 12 May 1917 on board HT Wiltshire, having received word that his wife was critically ill. Lieutenant Smith's appointment was terminated on 9 July 1917.

Born in 1880 in Perth WA, Stephen was fourth of ten children of Henry (Harry) Edward Smith (b1850 in Perth, WA) and Louisa Corrigan (b1851 in London, England). Louisa - a Domestic Servant in London from ten years of age, immigrated to Western Australia following her father's conviction and transportation for the murder of his wife in 1857. Harry and Louisa married in 1871 in Perth, WA where they raised their family and Harry was Superintendent of Mails.

Stephen started work as a Messenger Boy with WAGR in 1898, progressing to Cadet and then Clerk by 1901. He married Catherine Mary Madigan (b1833 in Melbourne, Victoria) in 1904 in Perth, WA and by 1910 the family was living in Tambellup where Stephen was Station Master. Stephen and Louisa were in Perth in 1915, and Stephen was working as a Clerk when he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge, Stephen and Catherine lived in Perth where Stephen worked as a Clerk and Traveller, and at Nukarni via Merredin where he was a Farmer. Catherine died in 1949 and Stephen in 1956.

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