Errol Bathurst Smith
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SMITH, Errol Bathurst
Service no: 3716 [1]
Place of birth: Carcoar, 1893
Address: Commercial Bank, Cooma
Occupation: Bank Clerk
Next of kin: Mary Beatrice Smith (mother), Graceville, Lords Place, Orange, later c/- Douglas Vine Life-Smith, Commercial Banking Company of Sydney, Blayney, then Lansdowne, Cross Street, Mosman.
Date of enlistment: 6 August 1917
Place of enlistment: Sydney
Age at enlistment: 24
Fate: Embarked HMAT A14 Euripides, Sydney, 31 October 1917. Disembarked Devonport 26 December 1917. Marched in to 14th Training Battalion, Hurdcott, 27 December 1917. Embarked Dover for France 1 April 1918. Marched in to No 1 Overflow Camp, Calais, and taken on strength 13th Battalion,1 April 1918. Wounded in action, receiving a gunshot wound to the upper arm and a fractured humerus, 1 May 1918. Died of wounds, 47th Casualty Clearing Station, France, 4 May 1918.
Date of death: 4 May 1918
Buried: Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-Somme-Sur, France, Plot 1, Row D, Grave 1