Studio portrait of 1175 Acting Sergeant Herbert Andrew Smythe, F Company, 3rd Battalion, of ...

Studio portrait of 1175 Acting Sergeant Herbert Andrew Smythe, F Company, 3rd Battalion, of Gladesville, NSW. Corporal (Cpl) Smythe enlisted on 21 August 1914 and embarked from Sydney aboard HMAT Euripides on 20 October 1915. He was killed in action at the second battle of Bullecourt on 3 May 1917. His brother Viv wrote the following notes referring to the location of his brother's burial on the back of the photograph 'OG2. Hindenburg Line E. of Bullecourt. Buried in trench 3rd bay to left of dugout to L (left) of sap leading to OG1 next to T.M. position. Map reference. France 51BSW, 1/20,000, U23C 4.25. 2.5.' This grave was not located at the end of the First World War and he is memorialised at Villers-Bretonneux. Cpl Smythe is one of four Smythe brothers, they were: Major Edward Vivian "Viv" Smythe MC and Bar, 17th and later 24th Battalion; Lieutenant Percy Ellesmere Smythe MC, 3rd and later 24th Battalion and Captain Vernon Erle Smythe MC and Bar, 3rd, 4th and later 56t Battalion, and a brother-in-law, Lieutenant George Roy McPhee Croix de Guerre, who all served with the AIF.