Date of enlistment | 12th July 1915 |
Rank at enlistment | Private |
Company | C Company |
Significant events while with the AIF | Wounded in Action – Pozieres |
Summary of Private Smiths’s WW1 service record, located in the National Archives of Australia. Full details are available online, NAA Series B2455
Date | Location | Event |
13th September 1919 | Australia | Discharged |
30th May 1919 | Australia | Disembarked Castalia |
13th April 1919 | England | Returned to Australia on Castalia |
13th February 1919 | England | Disembarked Weymouth from France |
20th December 1918 | England | Rejoined unit from leave |
4th December 1918 | England | Proceeded on English leave |
24th November 1916 | Belgium | Re-joined Battalion |
13th November 1916 | France | Marched in to 2nd ADBD |
8th August 1916 | England | Admitted 3rd London General Hospital, Wandsworth |
7th August 1916 | France | Embarked at Rouen on HS St.David |
5th August 1916 | France | Wounded in Action – gunshot wound face and left thigh |
26th March 1916 | France | Disembarked Marseille |
19th March 1916 | Egypt | Proceeded to join British Expeditionary Force from Alexandria on the Llandovery Castle |
1st March 1916 | Egypt | Conduct to the prejudice of good order. Smoking at outpost – award 6 days FP#2 |
8th January 1916 | Egypt | Taken on Strength, Tel-el-Kabir |
25th October 1915 | Egypt | Disembarked Alexandria |
29th September 1915 | Australia | Departed Melbourne on RMS Osterley |
3rd August 1915 | Australia | Assigned to 5th Reinforcements 22nd Battalion |
19th July 1915 | Australia | Marched into Broadmeadows depot |