SMITH, John Henry George
| Service Numbers: | Not yet discovered |
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| Enlisted: | 23 August 1916, Enlisted at Liverpool. |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Army Medical Corps (AIF) |
| Born: | Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia , 27 December 1897 |
| Home Town: | Not yet discovered |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Railway Clerk |
| Died: | Pelvic abscess, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia, 23 February 1917, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
Rookwood Cemeteries & Crematorium, New South Wales Methodist Sec.2C/OC Grave 104 |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 23 Aug 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, Army Medical Corps (AIF), Enlisted at Liverpool. | |
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| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, Australian Army Medical Corps WW1 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 19.
He was accepted, after research, for commemoration, as Great War dead on 03/06/2010
Biography contributed by John Oakes
John Henry George SMITH was born at Lewisham on 24th February 1897 and commenced work in the Traffic Auditor’s Branch of the Railways as a junior clerk in Sydney on 27th December 1911. He had not progressed beyond this role when he was granted leave to serve in the Home Defence forces on 23rd August 1916. He enlisted at Sydney and gave his father as his next of kin. Since he was less than 21-years-old his parents’ permission was required for him to enlist. They made a stipulation that he should only serve overseas in the Army Medical Corps.
He was duly taken on the strength of the Army Medical Corps at Liverpool on 23rd August 1916 and allocated to the Garrison Hospital at Victoria Barracks, Paddington on 24th August. He took ill on 25th November and returned to duty on 9th December. On 25th January his illness flared again, and he was admitted to his own hospital. He died there on 23rd February 1917.
His death certificate, usually included in military files for deaths occurring in New South Wales, shows that he died of Ureteral Calculus and Pelvic Collitis.
Smith was buried in the Methodist Cemetery, Rookwood, Sydney.
- based on the Australian War Memorial Honour Roll and notes for the Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board