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R C Smith

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Given name
R C (Reuben Clarence)
Family name
Smith
Service number
2489
Additional information
Gender
M
Rank (legacy)
Lance Corporal
Unit at embarkation
56 Battalion
Service (legacy)
Army
Conflicts
World War 1
Campaign (legacy)
Western Front
Decorations (legacy)
MM
Veteran Notes/Bio

1.Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan

2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 2489 ;POB:Bungendore :POE: Goulburn; NOK: Wife: Margarita Smith. "Currandooley",Bungendore.

3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank:Private ;Unit: 56 Infantry Battalion - 2 to 9 Reinforcements (April 1916 - January 1917); Age:20 7/12 ; Occupation: Boundary Rider ;DOE:11.03.1916 ; Embarked:30.09.1916.Sydney.HMAT Aeneas.A60.

4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank:Lance Corporal ;Unit: 56 Battalion;DOE:11.03.1916 : RTA: 3.09.1919 .

5. Stephenson:Not mentioned. 6.Awarded MM as a member 56 Battalion.Commonwealth Australia Gazette 15.09.1919.

7. Queanbeyan Age and Observer 11.08.1916 reported a farwell function at the Bungendore Public School for W.Smith, F.Saunderson, R.Smith and E.Sweeney,where each was presented with a money belt,"as a slight token of esteem from the public." 

8. Queanbeyan Age 18.11.1919:'On Friday night, 7th November a home reception was given to Corporal Reuben Smith at Brooklyn, near Captrin's Flat on his return from fighting line, where hespent over three years servinghis King and country.Corporal Smith enlisted from Currandooley near Bungendore. In the heat of battle Corporal Smith was fighting side by side with his brother, Cyril Smith, when he saw his brother almost completely cut in two by a gunshot, he caught him in his arms as he died. Private Cyri who enlisted from Bungendore, was a single man...... '

9.See  AWM Photograph P09678.001:Group portrait of Bungendore servicemen in the 55th and 56th Battalions noted below at Cyril Smith 2485 and comments by PJH 03.04.15                                                      

10. Brother of Cyril Thomas Smith 2485 KIA Western Front 

11. Last updated April 2015 .

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