SMITH, Thomas
| Service Number: | 2016 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 9th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Townsville, Queensland, Australia, 31 March 1884 |
| Home Town: | Townsville, Townsville, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in action, Gallipoli, Turkey, 1 October 1915, aged 31 years |
| Cemetery: |
Shell Green Cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula Plot I, Row D, Grave No. 11. HIS COUNTRY CALLED HE ANSWERED. |
| Memorials: | Nambour Maroochy Shire War Dead Memorial, Townsville Cenotaph |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2016, 9th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 16 Apr 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2016, 9th Infantry Battalion | |
| Date unknown: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2016, 9th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth SMITH, Flinders Street, West Townsville, Queensland
Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Thomas was the son of Thomas William and Elizabeth Smith, of West Townsville, Queensland.
His younger brother, 5669 Pte. William Smith 26th Battalion AIF was killed in action on 26 March 1917, aged 26.
Thomas enlisted in January 1915 with the 9th Battalion and arrived on Gallipoli on 10 July 1915.
Only one witness to his death in his Red Cross Wounded and Missing file. “On October 1st, 1915, at the right flank of the Anzac position, Pte. Smith was killed on an “ordinary day” in the trenches. He was shot in the head by a bullet and died in the trench about an hour afterwards. He was buried in the battalion burying ground, ‘Shrapnel Green’-near the sea, the same day.” 1986 Pte. A. McDonald 9th Battalion AIF.
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