SMITH, Arthur Patrick
| Service Number: | 6348 |
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| Enlisted: | 1 June 1916 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Stanley, Circular Head, Tasmania, Australia, 27 May 1892 |
| Home Town: | Detention River, Circular Head, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Wynyard, Tasmania, Australia, 17 January 1967, aged 74 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 1 Jun 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6348, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 24 Aug 1916: | Involvement Private, 6348, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Botanist embarkation_ship_number: A59 public_note: '' | |
| 24 Aug 1916: | Embarked Private, 6348, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Botanist, Melbourne | |
| 15 Apr 1917: | Imprisoned Captured: Lagincourt, France Held at Limberg, Germany PoW Camp | |
| 2 May 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 6348, 12th Infantry Battalion, per HT Nestor to Adelaide | |
| 3 Nov 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6348, 12th Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
Paddy was the third of five children of James Barnett Smith (b1858 at Port Sorell, Tasmania) and Ella Frances Louisa Edgcumbe (b1868 in Deloraine, Tasmania). James (a Labourer) and Ella married in 1888 in Emu Bay, Tasmania. James worked as a Labourer.
Paddy was a Labourer in Sisters Creek, Emu Bay Tasmania in 1916 when he and his two brothers - Rupert James and Joseph Leslie - travelled to Perth, Western Australia and enlisted in the AIF. Paddy served as a Private (Service No:6348) with 12th Infantry Battalion and was reported as Missing at Lagincourt, France on 15 April 1917. He was Confirmed a German PoW on 20 August 1917 - held at Limberg PoW Camp in Germany. Paddy was repatriated on 14 December 1918, returned to Australia in May 1919 and was Discharged in November 1919.
Returning to Tasmania, Paddy was a Farmer at Montumana in 1922 when he married Ruby Rose Barker (b1895 in Ulverstone, Tasmania) in Rocky Cape, where Ruby was a Dressmaker. Paddy and Ruby settled at Montumana where Paddy was a Farmer and they raised their family. Daughter Ella Jean (Private; Service No:TF150488) served in WWII.
Ruby died in 1949 and Paddy in 1967.