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SMYTH, Ernest Osborne
(Service number 10/798)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	29 May 1890	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Hawera, NZ
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William Smyth, Grocer, Oamaru
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Wellington Infantry Battalion
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	HMNZT 7, 10 Limerick or Arawa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Wellington Infantry Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	28 August 1915	Age
Place of Death	at sea ex Gallipoli (Egypt to Gallipoli)
Cause	Died of Wounds
Notices	Press, Volume LI, Issue 15378, 8 September 1915, Page 10
Memorial or Cemetery	Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt
Memorial Reference	F 167
New Zealand Memorials	Temuka War Memorial; 2015 additions to the Tiimaru Memorial Wall

Biographical Notes

Name on Temuka Methodist Church Roll of Honour. Son of William and Jane Smyth

Sources

Paul McNicholl's list of additional names for the Timaru Memorial Wall (August 2013)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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