SMITH, Joseph Charles
| Service Number: | 3333 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 September 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warragul, Victoria, Australia, 22 July 1881 |
| Home Town: | Holyoake, Murray, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Hewer |
| Died: | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 August 1932, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 23 Sep 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3333, 28th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 3333, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 3333, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Fremantle | |
| 14 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd ANZAC Cyclist Battalion | |
| 25 May 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Lance Corporal, 2nd ANZAC Cyclist Battalion | |
| 18 Sep 1916: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 2nd ANZAC Cyclist Battalion | |
| 9 Jul 1917: | Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 1st ANZAC Cyclist Battalion | |
| 12 Feb 1918: | Transferred AIF WW1, Corporal, 28th Infantry Battalion, France | |
| 17 Dec 1918: | Embarked AIF WW1, Corporal, 3333, 28th Infantry Battalion, embarked from England for RTA on board HT Argyllshire | |
| 18 May 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 3333, 28th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Corporal Joseph Charles Smith (Service No:3333) enlisted in the AIF on 21 September 1915 as a Private with 30 Depot. On 18 January 1916 he embarked from Fremantle for Alexandria with 28th Infantry Battalion on board HMAT A7 Medic. Whilst in Egypt he was transferred to the Anzac Cyclist Corps, and promoted to Lance Corporal and then Corporal (18 September 1916). Corporal Smith was in France when he transferred to 28th Infantry Battalion on 12 February 1918. Corporal Smith embarked from England for the RTA on 17 December 1918 on board HT Argyllshire and was attached to 28th Infantry Battalion at Discharge on 18 May 1919.
Joe was born in 1881 in Warragul Victoria, second of five children of Robert Smith (b1857 in Woollert, Victoria) and his first wife Matilda Wingrove (b1857 in Tarnagulla, Victoria). Robert (a Bullock Driver) and Matilda married in 1878 in Doncaster, Victoria and lived in Healesville and Diamond Creek before settling in Warragul with their five children. Following Matilda's death in 1887, Robert remarried and had a further six children. Robert worked as a Farmer in Warragul and then as a contractor clearing mountain ash trees in the Strzelecki Ranges.
Joe was a Labourer in Sheffield, Tasmania in 1904 when he married Elsie Iona Beatrice Smith (b1886 in Sheffield, Tasmania). Joe and Elsie moved to Neerim, Victoria where Joe worked as a Labourer. In 1911 they moved to Dwellingup, WA where Joe worked as a Hewer at Holyoake until he enlisted in the AIF. Following his Discharge in 1919, Joe and Elsie remained in Holyoake where Joe was a Hewer until the late 1920s when he returned to Melbourne and worked as a Labourer - Elsie and the children remained in WA. Joe died in 1932 in Melbourne.