Edmund Brierley SMITH

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SMITH, Edmund Brierley

Service Number:	16
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	Northhamptonshire, England, United Kingdom, 1876
Home Town:	Gympie, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	Gympie, Queensland, Australia, 5 May 1947, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Gympie Cemetery, Qld Plot: MIL-AB-16
Memorials:	Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 16, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
6 Mar 1901:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 16, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 488 notes 5th QIB embarked at Pinkenba 6 Mar 1901 aboard Templemore arriving Port Elizabeth 1 Apr 1901.
20 May 1901:	Promoted Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, Qld State Archives- Boer War Service Paybooks 5th QIB note promoted to Corporal on 20 Mar 1901.
4 Jan 1902:	Wounded Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 16, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Nominal Roll, Murray p. 493 notes severely wounded, Onverwacht 04 Jan 1902.
5 May 1902:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Corporal, 16, 5th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 491 notes 5th QIB embarked at Cape Town 27 Mar 1902 aboard St Andrew returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 30 Apr 1902, disbanded 5 May 1902.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

When Edmund Brierley Smith enlisted in 1901 in the 5th QIB he noted his N.O.K. as his mother Mrs. E. B. Smith, monkland, Gympie, Qld. He was born in 1876 in Northhamptonshire, England, a son to Edmund Brierley Smith and Katherine Smith (nee Turk). Following his Boer war service he returned to Gympie. He married Mary Bridget Briere on 17 Apr 1918 and they had at least one child.

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