SMITH, Allan Charles
| Service Number: | S76870 |
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| Enlisted: | 10 April 1942 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) |
| Born: | Mount Pleasant, SA, 12 April 1895 |
| Home Town: | Kersbrook, Adelaide Hills, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: |
World War 2 Service
| 10 Apr 1942: | Involvement Private, S76870, 2nd (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) | |
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| 10 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Adelaide, SA | |
| 10 Apr 1942: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, S76870 | |
| 11 Jul 1944: | Discharged |
Allan Charles Smith
Allan Charles Smith was born at Mount Pleasant on the 12th April 1895. In his enlistment papers filed on the 2nd September 1916, he gave his occupation as a labourer and listed his next of kin as his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of Balhannah.
Smith was 21 years old when he and his brother Allan Charles Smith left Adelaide on board the Afric on the 7th November 1916.
From Folkestone in England he proceeded to Etaples in France with the 50th Battalion on the 21st March 1917. He contracted tonsillitis which necessitated being hospitalised at Havre. Smith recovered sufficiently to rejoin his unit on the
16th June, but had to be evacuated due to pleurisy and a kidney disease. On the 6th September Smith was transferred to Graylingwell War Hospital with the additional complication of having trench fever, a condition that resulted in being returned to Australia on the hospital ship Balmoral Castle on the 1st February
1918. Smith arrived home on the 22nd March 1918 and was discharged on the 10th May 1918.
Allan returned to the property at Forest Range that he worked in conjunction with his brothers, George and Frank. The Smiths had part of the former Forest Range (Stoney Creek) gold diggings on their land and spent time fossicking for
gold. Block 4 was transferred to Allan’s ownership in 1919.
Submitted 13 October 2023 by christopher collins