Smythe, Ernest George (2nd Lieutenant, b.? - d.1916) Accession Number: 1DRL/0574

Description

Collection relating to the service of 2nd Lieutenant Ernest George Smythe, 11 Battalion, Malta, 1915. Collection consists of a photostat copy of one letter written by (then) Private Smythe to his mother, while he was recuperating at Malta from a wound received during the Landing at Gallipoli. Copy made by Australian War Memorial. Location of original letter unknown.

Contextual Description

Lieutenant Ernest George Smythe, 51 Battalion, AIF, who on 3 September 1916 was killed in action during an attack upon Mouquet Farm (Pozieres). Other biographical details concerning him are: clerk and commercial traveller, of Claremont, West Australia; born Woollahra, NSW; educated at Claremont Central State School; served in the CMF; enlisted in the AIF on 17 August 1914, beginning as a private in the 11th Battalion, with which he landed on Gallipoli and was wounded in the leg; transferred to 51st Battalion in Egypt early in 1916; age at time of death, 24.

Details

Accession Number
1DRL/0574
Classification
Private Record
Object Type
Letter
Measurement
Archived measurement
Date Made
1928
Place Made
Whole/Part
Collection
Item Count
2
Access
Open
Copying Provisions
Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required.
Provenance
AWM93 12/11/734
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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