SMITH, Frank
| Service Number: | 3496 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 14th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Stoulton, Worcestershire, United Kingdom, 1887 |
| Home Town: | Strathewen, Nillumbik, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 13 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 11 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 3496, 14th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: '' | |
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| 11 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 3496, 14th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne | |
| 13 Aug 1916: | Involvement Corporal, 3496, 14th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3496 awm_unit: 14 Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-08-13 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Sep 1887 SMITH Frank Pershore 6c 324
By 1891 the family had moved to Acocks Green, Birmingham.
Frank emigrated to Australia where, in July 1915, he enlisted in the Australian Army. He spent some time in Egypt before being transferred to France in June 1916. He was wounded in action on the Somme on 7th August - probably during the unsuccessful German counter-attack at Pozières. He went missing (subsequently reported as killed in action) on the 13th August during the Battle of Mouquet Farm.
He was 30 and the son of Emma Smith, of 757, Warwick Rd., Acock's Green, Birmingham, England, and the late Edwin Smith [farm labourer]
Awarded the Victory and British War Medal and the 1915 Star.
Frank is commemorated on the Chelmarsh War Memorial. Chelmarsh is a village and civil parish in the English county of Shropshire. It lies 4 miles south of Bridgnorth on the B4555 road to Highley.
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