Lieutenant Frederick George SMITH Clicking on Photo will return to Page S - T

SMITH Lieutenant Frederick George F Company, 2nd Battalion, Australian Imperial Force Born 28th September 1893, in Maryborough, Queensland [Birth certificate 1893 93/008215, Qld] Educated: Newcastle Public High School, Newcastle, NSW Single; Public servant, Justice Department, NSW, of 469 Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW Next of Kin listed as: Father; George Smith. Mother; Julia Smith (nee Clancy), of 469 Hunter Street, Newcastle, NSW Photos of Lieutenant Smith are known to exist in the following locations: Reveille 1 Sep 1932 p19. Sydney Town & Country Journal 30 Sep 1914 p26

Died of wounds
8th May 1915
at Anglo-American Hospital,
Cairo, Egypt
Aged 21






2nd Battalion, AIF

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Grave:

Cairo War Memorial cemetery

Epitaph:
(Unknown)

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Notes:

Previously 41st Infantry. Joined Corps of Signals in 1911.

Wounded in a Turkish trench, April 27th, 1915.

At time of enlistment, (and for the 12 months prior) was Deposition clerk in the Department of Justice at the Court House, Bathurst, NSW, where a life sized picture of the deceased officer was publicly unveiled in the Court House to his memory.

NOK address also given as: Mr G. Smith, 'Brookville', Thistle Street, Kedron, Brisbane. (Reveille Vol. 6 No. 1; 1 Sep 1932 p19).

Appointed commander of No. 14 Platoon, D Company, 1 January 1915.

Mortally wounded 27th April 1915. Died from haemmorrhage at Anglo American Hospital Cairo May 8th 1915 and interred in old Cairo cemetery. Major Scobie (also afterwards killed at Gallipoli) attended the funeral in Egypt.

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