The son of Georgina Smith of Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, young Billy Smith put his age up in order to enlist with his best mate, in the A.I.F. on 3 July 1940 at Kelvin Grove in Brisbane, Queensland.
Wounded in Action at Ayer Hitam Road, he was evacuated to AGH where doctors operated and amputated his leg.
He survived the actual operation, but died soon after, just prior to his best mate and others arriving at the hospital in order to see him.
He was originally buried in Grave 8254A at Bidodarri.
Commemoration in Australia at The Australian War Memorial in Canberra; and on the Family Grave at Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane.
"When you go home,
Tell them of us, and say,
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today."
View Cenotaph here
Wounded in Action at Ayer Hitam Road, he was evacuated to AGH where doctors operated and amputated his leg.
He survived the actual operation, but died soon after, just prior to his best mate and others arriving at the hospital in order to see him.
He was originally buried in Grave 8254A at Bidodarri.
Commemoration in Australia at The Australian War Memorial in Canberra; and on the Family Grave at Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane.
"When you go home,
Tell them of us, and say,
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today."
View Cenotaph here
The son of Georgina Smith of Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, young Billy Smith put his age up in order to enlist with his best mate, in the A.I.F. on 3 July 1940 at Kelvin Grove in Brisbane, Queensland.
Wounded in Action at Ayer Hitam Road, he was evacuated to AGH where doctors operated and amputated his leg.
He survived the actual operation, but died soon after, just prior to his best mate and others arriving at the hospital in order to see him.
He was originally buried in Grave 8254A at Bidodarri.
Commemoration in Australia at The Australian War Memorial in Canberra; and on the Family Grave at Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane.
"When you go home,
Tell them of us, and say,
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today."
View Cenotaph here
Wounded in Action at Ayer Hitam Road, he was evacuated to AGH where doctors operated and amputated his leg.
He survived the actual operation, but died soon after, just prior to his best mate and others arriving at the hospital in order to see him.
He was originally buried in Grave 8254A at Bidodarri.
Commemoration in Australia at The Australian War Memorial in Canberra; and on the Family Grave at Lutwyche Cemetery, Brisbane.
"When you go home,
Tell them of us, and say,
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today."
View Cenotaph here
Inscription
QX13944 Private
W. SMITH
2/26 Infantry Battalion
26th January 1942 Age 21
Sleeping where
No shadows fall.
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