SMITH, George Reginald John
| Service Number: | 212 |
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| Enlisted: | 11 January 1916, 10 year AGA Regiment |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 35th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Cooks Hill, New South Wales, 1 December 1881 |
| Home Town: | Cooks Hill, Newcastle West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Cook's Hill Public School, NSW |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | KIA - SW to abdomen, 1 mile East of Messines, Belgium, 29 June 1917, aged 35 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium |
| Memorials: | Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Newcastle (Gardner Memorial) War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 212, 35th Infantry Battalion, 10 year AGA Regiment | |
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| 1 May 1916: | Involvement Private, 212, 35th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 1 May 1916: | Embarked Private, 212, 35th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Memorialised at Sandgate Cemetery.
106 years ago today, on the 29th June 1917, Private George Reginald John Smith, also known as Gunboat, 35th Battalion (Reg No-212), miner from 2 Tooke Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, father of three (Olga Rose, George Benjamin, Benalla), was Killed in Action by a piece of artillery shell, 1 mile East of Messines Village, Belgium, age 35.
Born at Cooks Hill, New South Wales on the 1st December 1881 to Benjamin (died 15.5.1903, Newcastle, N.S.W., age?) of 12 Tooke Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales, and Rose Amelia Smith (died 11.11.1918, Newcastle, N.S.W., age 79) of 12 Tooke Street, Cooks Hill, New South Wales; husband of Rose Daphney Smith nee Lyneam (married 1914, Newcastle, N.S.W., died?) of Pittwater Road, Terry's Hills, via. Chatswood, N.S.W. (1946), George enlisted on the 11th January 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A24 Benalla on the 1st May 1916.
George’s name has been inscribed on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 25), Belgium.
Place of Association – Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Mr. Smith’s name has also been inscribed on the Gardner Memorial, Newcastle Methodist Church Roll of Honour, Newcastle Central Methodist Mission Roll of Honour, Cooks Hill Superior Public School Roll of Honour and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised gravesite of the Smith family in remembrance of George’s service and supreme sacrifice for God, King & Country. METHODIST 1 (WESLEYAN) B NW. 65.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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