Archibald Brunker SMITH

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SMITH, Archibald Brunker

Service Numbers:	1425, 2295
Enlisted:	18 November 1914
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	58th Infantry Battalion
Born:	South Yarra, Victoria, December 1889
Home Town:	Brunswick, Moreland, Victoria
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Locomotive Engine Driver
Died:	Killed in Action, Villers-Bretonneux, France, 26 April 1918
Cemetery:	Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery Plot XI. Row A. Grave 6., Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, City of Brunswick Honour Roll

World War 1 Service

18 Nov 1914:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1425
2 Feb 1915:	Involvement Private, 1425, 6th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: ''
2 Feb 1915:	Embarked Private, 1425, 6th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Melbourne
5 Apr 1915:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 1425, 6th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, proceeded to join British Expeditionary Forces, Gallipoli
17 Feb 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2295, 58th Infantry Battalion, from 6th Battalion
22 Feb 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 58th Infantry Battalion
7 Sep 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 58th Infantry Battalion
27 Dec 1916:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2295, proceeded to join 15th Training Battalion, England, for duty and placed on Supernumeracy List
5 Sep 1917:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, Sergeant on proceeding overseas to France, ex 15th Training Battalion, Husselcote.
20 Sep 1917:	Involvement AIF WW1, Sergeant, 2295, 58th Infantry Battalion, taken on strength

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Biography contributed by Julianne Ryan

Born December 1889, South Yarra, Victoria (youngest of father's second marriage & 12)

Father Henry Vincent Smith and Mother Susan Mary Smith (nee Verso).

Wife: Gertrude Catherine May Smith (nee Earp), lived at 34 Mary Street, Northcote, VIC
1923 remarried - now known as Mrs Gertrude C Lowe

Father Henry Vincent SMITH, b. circa 1829 at Walingford, BRK, England,
d. 06/01/1898 at Tarago, Victoria (buried in Drouin West Cemetery, Buln Buln, VIC)

Father's 1st marriage: Mary GANDER
         b. 1846 at Bromley, BRK, England
         m. 11/01/1866 at Chapel Street St Kilda Baptist, St Kilda, Melbourne, VIC
         d. 25/08/1878 at 1 Albert Terrace Cunningham Street, South Yarra, Melbourne, VIC

Siblings:
Albert SMITH b. 1867 South Yarra, VIC - d. 1944
m. Evelyn Rosetta AUSTIN b. 1899 Ballarat East, VIC - d. 28/5/1960 Broken Hill, NSW
Edward SMITH b. Feb 1869 South Yarra, VIC - d. 7/12/1869 South Yarra, VIC
Henry Vincent SMITH b. 1870
m. Annie Priscilla DOHERTY b. 1872 Kyneton, VIC - d. 1963 at Kew, VIC
Clara Isabel SMITH b. Feb 1871 Melbourne, VIC - d. 21/7/1876 South Yarra, VIC
Eva Blanche SMITH b. 4/12/1875 South Yarra, VIC - d. 11/9/1957 Sydney, NSW
m. Ernest PEARCE d. 28/7/1933 Jeparit, VIC (buried in Bacchus Marsh, VIC)
Mary Lydia SMITH b. 13/8/1878 South Yarra, VIC - d. 3/12/1878 South Yarra, VIC

Father's 2nd marriage: Susan Mary VERSO (MOTHER)
b. 9/2/1851 at 2 Paradise Place, Dublin, Ireland
m. 16/4/1879 at All Saint's, St Kilda, Melbourne, VIC
d. 5 Nov 1924 at Cheltenham, Melbourne, VIC
buried in: Brighton Cemetery, Brighton VIC

Siblings:
Susan (Susie) Verso SMITH b. 16/4/1880 South Yarra, VIC
d. 2/1/1951 Chatswood NSW
buried in Northern Suburbs Crematorium, Sydney, NSW
m. Walter Lionel PATTERSON (SCHREGEL) b. 1889 at Merewether, Newcastle, NSW
d. 21/3/1942 at Paramatta District Hospital, Paramatta, NSW
Ernest Garfield SMITH b. 15/7/1881 South Yarra, VIC - d. 6/9/1955 Glen Iris, VIC
cremated at Springvale Crematorium, Springvale, VIC
m. Emma Fanny BRIDGLAND b. 1889 Melbourne, VIC - d. 16/9/1936 Glen Iris, VIC
Frederick Elkington SMITH b. 15/6/1883 South Yarra, VIC - d. 13/2/1932 Bondi, NSW
cremated at Rookwood Cemetery, Rookwood, NSW
m. Flora SMEDLEY
Sydney Powell Patrick SMITH b. 17/3/1886 South Yarra, VIC -
d. 9/1/1962 at Hampton, Melbourne
m. Irene Isabel CAMERON
Charles Stuart SMITH b. 19/11/1887 South Yarra, VIC - d. 26/5/1964 Seaholme, VIC
cremated at Western Suburbs Crematorium, Altona, VIC
m1. Ivy Edith Evelyn GRANT b. 1889 Carlton, VIC - d. 14/5/1938 Altona Beach, VIC
m2. Minnie LEWIS (m. 1939)
Archibald Brunker SMITH b. 1889 South Yarra, VIC
m. 1915 - Gertrude Catherine May EARP b. b. 1895 Northcote, VIC

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