SMALL, Daniel
| Service Number: | 2707 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 7th Field Company Engineers |
| Born: | Scotland, United Kingdom, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Sutherland, Sutherland Shire, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 7 August 1916, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, Albert Grave I. B. 20. INSCRIPTION TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE , Bapaume Post Military Cemetery, Bapaume, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Dec 1915: | Involvement Sapper, 2707, 7th Field Company Engineers, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '5' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Suffolk embarkation_ship_number: A23 public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Dec 1915: | Embarked Sapper, 2707, 7th Field Company Engineers, HMAT Suffolk, Sydney |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 32 and the son of Daniel and Mary Small; husband of Catherine J. Small, of "Methil," 211, Forest Rd., Arncliffe, Sydney, New South Wales.
He is one of two Australian soldiers of the Great War remembered on the Buckhaven and Methil war memorial.
Buckhaven & Methil - Kirkcaldy District
UKNIWM Ref No. 8730
The Buckhaven and Methil war memorial is a tall freestone pedestal supporting the freestone sculpture of a uniformed Royal Highlander infantryman. The pedestal rests on a base of two low steps and is surrounded by a low iron railing. The commemorations and names of the WWI dead are listed on large bronze panels on the faces of the pedestal.
The monument stands in the memorial park facing Wellesley Road.
Unveiled on Saturday 22nd December, 1922 by Lord Wester Wemyss, with a Guard of Honour provided by the 6/7th Black Watch, the memorial is recorded as being "a labour of love" for the architect.
G C Campbell, circa 1920; with T Good, sculptor Edinburgh; Ruvie & Son, builder Leven. Polished ashlar with voussoirs. 2 polygonal steps of Arbroath stone with setback railings enclose buttressed plinth with bronze plaques over small projecting pedestals.
NORTH ELEVATION: moulded plaque inscribed 'GREAT WAR/1914-1918/IN HONOURED MEMORY OF OUR HEROIC DEAD' surmounted by carved Burgh Emblem, 'THE BURGH OF BUCKHAVEN, METHIL AND INNERLEVEN/CARBON CARABESQUE'.
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