Thomas Clacker SMITH

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SMITH, Thomas Clacker

Service Number:	Q164894
Enlisted:	8 April 1940
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	Infantry Training Battalions
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 9 May 1880
Home Town:	Brisbane, Brisbane, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Surveyor's Chainman
Died:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 12 July 1965, aged 85 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

8 Apr 1940:	Involvement Corporal, Q164894
8 Apr 1940:	Enlisted
8 Apr 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Q164894, Infantry Training Battalions
19 Apr 1944:	Discharged
19 Apr 1944:	Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Corporal, Q164894, Infantry Training Battalions

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Thomas was the third of six children of John Greig Smith (b1850 in Scotland) and Margaret Jane Clacher (b1854 in Brisbane, QLD). John had immigrated with his parents and siblings in 1857, and he and Margaret married in 1875 in Brisbane, QLD. They lived in Brisbane, Bundaberg, Esk, Pioneer and Airdmillan where John worked as a Bookkeeper, Clerk and Sugar Boiler.

Thomas had worked in Brisbane as a Tram Conductor and in Esk as a Labourer and Cream Tester before enlisting in the AIF in 1916. He served with 41st Infantry Battalion (Private; Service No:2392) and was WiA on two occasions if France. In 1919 in Scotland he married Isabella Willamena Robinson (nee Fairbairn; b 1882 in Scotland) and they settled in Dulong, Nambour QLD following Thomas's Discharge in 1920. Thomas's younger brother Archie (Private; Service No:2399) also served in WWI.

In 1940 Thomas and Isabella were living in Brisbane where Thomas worked as a Surveyor's Chainman when he enlisted in the ACMF. He was a Corporal (Service No:Q164894) attached to 7 Infantry Training Battalion when he was Discharged in April 1944. Step Son George John Robinson (WOII; Service No:QX9211) also served in WWII.

Isabella died in 1947 and Thomas worked as a Storeman in Redcliffe before relocating to Toowoomba, QLD in the early 1950s. He died in 1965.

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