Smart, George (3926)
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland
Age: 26 years 3 months
Enlistment Details: Thursday, 8 July 1915 – Melbourne, VIC
Service Number: 3926 view online service record
Address:
276 Rouse Street
Port Melbourne, VIC
Next of Kin:
Violet Maud Smart (wife)
276 Rouse Street
Port Melbourne, VIC
Embarkation Details:
Date: Tuesday, 23 November 1915
Ship: HMAT Ceramic A40
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 7th Infantry Battalion – 12th Reinforcements
Fate:
KIA: Tuesday, 25 September 1917
Place: France
Later at 115 Princes Street, Port Melbourne.
Sergeant, 60 Infantry, killed in action 25 September, 1917, Belgium, aged 29, commemorated Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.
Parents: George and Caroline SMART, Wife: Mrs Violet M SMART, born Glasgow, Scotland, educated SS Scotland. Enlisted with wife at 185 Princes Street, she returned the circular from Glenhuntly re-married as Mrs ASHLEY.
Additional research by Brian Membrey
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Brian Membrey
“I was in the action near Polygon Wood (Ypres) around 25-27th September. We attacked about 9 a.m. We gained our objective and stayed there until relieved. I was gassed. Sgt. G Smart was in a shell hole very badly wounded as we were going forward. I stayed a little time with him and did what I could and then I told Coy. Sgt.Major Williams and he went to him and he afterwards told me Smart had died. I know nothing more. Description : Medium height, fair, a moustache, rather prominent nose, he used to be a bayonet instructor on staff in England, he was in D. Coy” (Pte Peter Williamson, 2263, ^0th A.I.F., D Coy)