Lionel William Thomson SMART

SMART, Lionel William Thomson

Service Number: VX21876
Enlisted: 6 June 1940
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion
Born: Ararat, Victoria, Australia, 17 February 1916
Home Town: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness, Seymour, Victoria, Australia, 21 October 1940, aged 24 years
Cemetery: St Kilda Cemetery, Victoria
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939: Involvement Private, VX21876
6 Jun 1940: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, VX21876, 2nd/2nd Pioneer Battalion

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Lionel was the youngest of four children of Thomas Henry Smart (b1879 in Ararat, Victoria) and Susan (Susie) Golding Thomson (b1876 in Buninyong, Victoria). Thomas - a Miner - and Susie married in 1910 in Ararat, Victoria where they settled and raised their family.

Lionel served with the Militia (Service No:450459; March to September 1939) with 15th Field Brigade before enlisting with the Australian Army. He was a Private (Service No:VX21876) attached to 2/2 Pioneer Battalion when he died in 1940. Older brother Stuart Henry Thomson Smart also served in the Militia (Sapper; Service No:443033) and the Australian Army (Sapper; Service No:NX54281). Brothers-in-Law William John Downie (Leading Aircraftman; Service No:59750) and Keith Oswald Clyde Abson (Private; Service No:VX21285) also served in WWII.

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