Joseph Robert Smith
- Born: 1883, Bungeeluke North, Victoria Australia
- Died: 17 Aug 1920, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria Australia at age 37
- Buried: 19 Aug 1920, Coburg Cemetery, Victoria Australia
General Notes:
First World War Embarkation Roll
Joseph Robert Smith
Number 6813
Rank Private
Unit 5 Infantry Battalion - 13 to 23 Reinforcements (December 1915 - November 1916)
Ship Name HMAT Ulysses
Ship number A38
Date of embarkation 25 October 1916
Place of embarkation Melbourne
Roll of Honour
Joseph Robert Smith
Rank Lance Corporal [L Cpl]
Service Number 6813
Unit 5th Bn
Service Army
Conflict 1914-1918
Date of Death 17 August 1920
Place of Death Caulfield Hospital Melbourne VIC
Cemetery or Memorial Details Coburg VIC Meth B 750B
Next Of Kin Mrs Sarah Ellen Smith, Mother
Place Of Enlistment Dromana, VIC
Native place Wycheproof VIC
Source AWM145 Roll of Honour cards, 1914-1918 War, Army
Joseph Robert Smith enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force on 1/9/1916. His next of kin was his mother Mrs. Sarah Smith, Wyuna Town, Victoria.
His Certificate of Medical Examination describes Joseph as: - Age - 30 years and nine months, height - 5 feet 2 and three quarter inches, weight - 117 pounds, chest measurement - 32/34 inches, complexion - medium, eyes - hazel, hair - black and religious denomination - Methodist. Distinctive marks were - 4 vacs right arm.
Joseph embarked on the “Ulysses” from Melbourne on 25/10/1916 and disembarked at Plymouth on 28/12/1916. He was admitted sick to Parkhouse Hospital, England on 3/2/1917 and discharged on 27/2/1917. He proceeded to France to fight.
Purchas & Canning, 43-46 Selbourne Chambers.
Surveyor, &C. 505 Bourke Street,
Telephone 5078 Next Menzies” Hotel
Melbourne July 19th 1917
Officer in Charge,
Base Records Office,
St Kilda Road,
Dear Sir,
I have an old employee in the A.I.F. whom I would like to communicate with and would esteem it a favour if you could give me the correct address for such communications.
Name: - Joseph Smith.
Enlisted about September 1916.
Went into Camp Broadmeadows 15th September 1916 and gave his address there as: - 22nd Reinforcements 5th Battalion, 4th Company - Sailed a few weeks later.
Yours truly
C. R. Canning
Joseph returned via the “Persci” from England on 13/7/1919. He wasn’t discharged from the A.I.F. and he died at the No. 11, A.G.H. Caulfield at 6.50 a.m. on 17th August 1920 of Tuberculosis Spine (which he was treated for one year) and exhaustion. The funeral and burial was a Military one and took place at the Coburg Cemetery on the 19th August 1920.
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation: Farmer.
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