Charles Sydney SMITH

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Service Number:	681
Enlisted:	14 February 1916, Original of B Company
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	37th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Coleraine, Victoria, Australia, 1896
Home Town:	South Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	Eastern Rd State School South Melbourne
Occupation:	Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

14 Feb 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 681, 37th Infantry Battalion, Original of B Company
3 Jun 1916:	Involvement Private, 681, 37th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Persic embarkation_ship_number: A34 public_note: ''
3 Jun 1916:	Embarked Private, 681, 37th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Persic, Melbourne

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His older brother 1142 Corporal George Coleraine Smith 30th Battalion AIF, died in France of broncho pneumonia, 30 October 1918. Age 24.