SMITH, Ernest Leslie
| Service Number: | 7366 |
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| Enlisted: | 20 November 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, 24 April 1888 |
| Home Town: | Newcastle, Hunter Region, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Fireman (railways) |
| Died: | Belmont, New South Wales, Australia, 27 March 1939, aged 50 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW GENERAL-30. 50. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 20 Nov 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 7366, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 7 Feb 1917: | Involvement Private, 7366, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Wiltshire embarkation_ship_number: A18 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Feb 1917: | Embarked Private, 7366, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Wiltshire, Sydney | |
| 12 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 7366, 13th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
85 years ago today, on the Wednesday morning of the 29th March 1939, Private Ernest Leslie Smith, 13th Battalion (Reg No-7366), fireman (railways), from 38 Bolton Street, Newcastle, New South Wales and 25 Wallace Street, South Maitland, N.S.W. and Belmont, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 50. GENERAL-30. 50.
Born at Tamworth, New South Wales on the 24th April 1888 to George Kirk and Elizabeth Hannah Smith; husband of Lily May Smith nee Fitzgerald (married 1914, Murrurundi, N.S.W., died?) of 51 Albury Road, Stanmore, New South Wales, Ernest enlisted on the 20th November 1916 at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A18 Wiltshire on the 7th February 1917.
Admitted to hospital 1.8.1917 (synovitis), 19.1.1919 (pyrexia, trench fever), 28.1.1919 (myalgia - muscle pain).
Wounded in action - 5.4.1918 (GSW left leg).
Commenced return to Australia 12.5.1919.
Ernest arrived home on the 5th July 1919, being discharged on the 12th August 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, wounds, returning home, etc.
Mr. Smith’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Ernest’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
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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