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Driver WILLIAM ERNEST SMITH

Service Number: 19755
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Field Artillery

8th Bde.

Date of Death

Died 21 June 1918

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME

II. D. 23.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of William and Annie Smith; husband of Christina D. Smith, of Lakes Entrance, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.
  • Personal Inscription THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY
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Buried or commemorated at

CROUY BRITISH CEMETERY, CROUY-SUR-SOMME
Somme France
Number of casualties: 783
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