David Augustus SMITH

SMITH, David Augustus

    Service Number: 2203
    Enlisted: 21 April 1915, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
    Last Rank: Private
    Last Unit: 2nd Infantry Battalion
    Born: Redfern, New South Wales, 1892
    Home Town: Corrimal, Wollongong, New South Wales
    Schooling: Not yet discovered
    Occupation: Labourer
    Died: Killed in Action, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 6 August 1915
    Cemetery: Lone Pine Cemetery, ANZAC
    Special Memorial, Row C, Grave 135 Headstone inscription reads: Their glory shall not be blotted out, Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey
    Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour
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    World War 1 Service

    21 Apr 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2203, 2nd Infantry Battalion, Enlisted at Liverpool, NSW
    16 Jun 1915: Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2203, 2nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Karoola embarkation_ship_number: A63 public_note: ''
    6 Aug 1915: Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2203, 2nd Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli

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    Biography contributed by Carol Foster

    Next of kin given as his brother Bernard Matthew Smith of Corrimal, NSW who was later killed in action on 3 May 1917 and has no known grave. His name appears on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial; also brother of John Edward Smith of Springwood, NSW later of Cahireen, County Clare, Ireland

    Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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