Harry Charles Corstan SMITH

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SMITH, Harry Charles Corstan

Service Number:	SX2489
Enlisted:	24 April 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Durban, South Africa, 30 October 1912
Home Town:	Whyalla (Formerly Hummock's Hill), Whyalla, South Australia
Schooling:	Gawler Primary and High Schools, South Australia
Occupation:	Stone Mason, Plasterer
Died:	Killed in Action, Tobruk, 16 May 1941, aged 28 years
Cemetery:	Tobruk War Cemetery, Tobruk, Libya
Memorials:	Adelaide Pathway of Honour - The Rats of Tobruk WW2 Memorial, Adelaide The Siege of Tobruk Commemorative Cross, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gawler Council WW2 Honour Roll, Gawler RSL Memorial Wall, Iron Knob War Memorial

24 Apr 1940:	Involvement Private, SX2489, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
24 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
24 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX2489, 2nd/10th Infantry Battalion
Date unknown:	Involvement

Biography

Sgt. Harry Charles Corston Smith 2/10th AIF of Twelfth Street, Gawler, aged 26. Son of Mr and Mrs G H Smith of Gawler. Educated at Gawler Primary and High Schools. Played A Grade football for Gawler and Whyalla. Interested in boxing and inter-club boxing bouts. Keen on cycle racing and won over varying distances. A plasterer working at Whyalla at time of enlistment in April 1940. Saw active service through the desert campaign to Benghazi then to Tobruk where he was killed while on patrol duty on May 16th 1941.

Information supplied from The Personal Pictorial Honor Roll of South Australians who have enlisted in the Second World War.

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