Glen Thomas SMITH

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SMITH, Glen Thomas

Service Numbers:	Q4055, QX54859
Enlisted:	19 March 1941
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	47 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Nanango, Queensland, Australia, 25 October 1917
Home Town:	Nanango, South Burnett, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Farm Hand
Died:	Nanango, Queensland, Australia, 17 August 2010, aged 92 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Nanango Cemetery, South Burnett - Queensland
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World War 2 Service

19 Mar 1941:	Involvement Private, Q4055, also QX54859 - died 17 Aug 2010 (C'Mail)
19 Mar 1941:	Enlisted
26 Jun 1943:	Involvement Private, QX54859, also Q4055 - died 17 Aug 2010 (C'Mail)
26 Jun 1943:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX54859, 47 Infantry Battalion AMF
31 Oct 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, QX54859, 47 Infantry Battalion AMF

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Glen was the third of four children of Thomas Smith (b1874 in Nanango, QLD) and Jane Gardner (b1883 in Ipswich, QLD). Thomas (a Harness Maker) and Jane married in 1908 in Ipswich, QLD qnd settled in Nanango where they raised their family. Thomas worked as a Labourer and Farmer.

Glen was a Farm Hand in Nanango when he enlisted in the ACMF in March 1941 (Private; Service No:Q4055). In June 1943 he enlisted with the AIF and was a Private (Service No:QX54859) attached to 47 Infantry Battalion when he was Discharged in October 1944. Brother Jack Noel (Sergeant: Service No:Q75735) also served in WWII.

In 1941 Glen married Ethel Lottie Wyatt (b1899 in Southport, QLD). They settled in Nanango where Glen was a Farm Hand at Melba Dale until 1960. Glen and Ethel moved into Nanango and Glen worked as a Herdsman. Following Ethel's death in 1967, Glen remarried Edith Joyce Wesener (aka Joyce; b1928 in Kilcoy, QLD) in Nanango. Glen died in 2010 and Joyce in 2017.

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