SMITH, Joseph Edgar
| Service Numbers: | 798, N102773 |
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| Enlisted: | 22 January 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Young, N.S.W. Australia, 10 October 1892 |
| Home Town: | Young, Young, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Public School |
| Occupation: | Stockman |
| Died: | 4 February 1976, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Young Pitstone Honor Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 9 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 798, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Itria embarkation_ship_number: A53 public_note: '' | |
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| 9 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 798, 2nd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Itria, Brisbane |
World War 2 Service
| 22 Jan 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, N102773 |
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Lieutenant Joseph Edgar Smith (Turkey) 798 enlisted at Charleville QLD and joined the 2nd Australian Light Horse Regiment,they trained in Egypt, then volunteered to dismount to fight at Gallipoli as his brother Sydney was there with the 13th Battalion. After Gallipoli he left for France and joined the 47th Battalion which half of the battalion were Gallipoli veterans and the other half fresh recruitments from Australia. They entered the trenches on the Western Front on the 3rd July 1917 at participated it's first major battle at Pozieres. On the12th October 1917 at Passchendaele Ridge he was awarded the "Military Cross" for gallantry and devotion to duty under heavy shell fire. They also fought in heavy battles at Ypres,Messines through to early 1918 they were fighting at Dernancourt where they took many casualties, on around the 5th April Lt. Goodsall and Lt. Smith were captured by the Germans and sat out the rest of the war at "Karlsruhe" Prisoner of War Camp. After the war he was repatriated to England. He done his duty for God, King and Country and signed up again in WW2 for Garrison Duty at internment camps.
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