SMITH, Harold Roy
| Service Number: | 941 |
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| Enlisted: | 7 July 1915, An original member of C Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 29th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia, 21 December 1892 |
| Home Town: | Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Footscray State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Butcher |
| Died: | Killed in action, France, 24 November 1916, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Footscray Presbyterian Church Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 7 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 941, 29th Infantry Battalion, An original member of C Company | |
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| 10 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 941, 29th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 10 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 941, 29th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Harold Smith was the son of Charles Henry and Jessie Shaw Smith, of Footscray, Victoria. He was 22 years of age and a butcher when he enlisted in 1915.
His older brother, 2024 Pte. Henry Gordon Smith 5th Battalion AIF was killed in action at Gallipoli 9th/10th August 1915, aged 33.
Harold served at the Battle of Fromelles and was briefly made a Lance Corporal in September 1916.
On his roll of honour form his mother included the following from a letter from Lieutenant H.S. Gray 29th Battalion,
“He was one of the coolest men in danger I have ever come in contact with, and he always did his part. I know well he could he always be depended upon, if I had the choice of men to do a job in a tight corner I don’t think there was a man I would have chosen before him, one of the best, coolest, bravest men I have the pleasure of coming into contact with.”