Charles (Charlie ) SMITH

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SMITH, Charles

Service Number:	3249
Enlisted:	27 July 1915
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd Field Company Engineers
Born:	South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 20 August 1892
Home Town:	South Melbourne, Port Phillip, Victoria
Schooling:	State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31.
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient), South Melbourne Great War Roll of Honor

World War 1 Service

27 Jul 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3249, 22nd Infantry Battalion
26 Nov 1915:	Involvement Private, 3249, 22nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Commonwealth embarkation_ship_number: A73 public_note: ''
26 Nov 1915:	Embarked Private, 3249, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Commonwealth, Melbourne
24 Feb 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 7th Infantry Battalion
28 Sep 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Pioneer Battalion, for mining duties “in the field” to deepen dugouts and improve trench systems, based at Pioneer Camp, 4kms east of Ypres.
3 Jan 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 7th Infantry Battalion, Returned to 7th Infantry Battalion.
28 Sep 1917:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 2nd Field Company Engineers, Charlie, along with 24 others, was detached from the 7th Infantry Battalion, and attached for duty to 2nd Field Company Australian Engineers based at Kruisstraat in the Wijtschate-Messines sector, for work and carrying parties.
4 Oct 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 3249, 2nd Field Company Engineers, With a Section that fanned out from Westhoek Ridge toconstruct “strong points”, machine gun posts, and dressing station dugouts, lay wire entanglements ahead of posts and organise communications, affected by rain, sniping and heavy shelling.
4 Oct 1917:	Involvement Private, 3249, 7th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3249 awm_unit: 7 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-10-04

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Biography contributed by Linda Neate

Charlie Smith was born Charles Smith, Ref.28790/1892, registered at Albert Park (Victorian Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages). As his parents had died young, and presumably his sister (nothing further located other than a birth registration), Charlie's brother George (born 1893) was his nearest known blood relative. The boys grew up in the household of Charles and Agnes Ellen Rainbow and their family in South Melbourne.

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