| Places | |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | 1DRL/0574 |
| Collection type | Private Record |
| Record type | Collection |
| Measurement | 1 wallet: 1 cm. |
| Object type | Letter |
| Maker |
Smythe, Ernest George |
| Place made | Australia: Victoria, Melbourne |
| Date made | 1928 |
| Access | Open |
| Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room. | AWM93 12/11/734 |
| Conflict |
First World War, 1914-1918 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
|
| Copying Provisions | Copyright expired. Copying permitted subject to physical condition. Permission for reproduction not required. |
Smythe, Ernest George (2nd Lieutenant, b.? - d.1916)
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.
History / Summary
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.