Private Mathew Valentine Smith

Service number 3395
Birth Place Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Waterloo
Death Date 04/04/1918
Death Place France
Final Rank Private
Service Australian Imperial Force
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  • 34th Australian Infantry Battalion
  • 34th Australian Infantry Battalion
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Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Description

Private Mathew “Matty” Valentine Smith (3395, 34th Battalion) was born in Waterloo, NSW, in 1901. He was working as a driver when he enlisted in May 1917. Matty was killed in the front line near Villers-Bretonneux on the night of 4 April 1917 when a shell fell short and exploded in the trench his company was occupying. Matty is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France. His mother wrote that he was 17 years of age.

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Date of embarkation 16/07/1917
Date of enlistment 17/05/1917
Date of death 04/04/1918
Date of fate 04/04/1918

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