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Smith, Albert Henry

Kevin Byrne has a photo of a man who he named as B Smith. I have assumed this person to be Albert Henry Smith but there is no certainty.

Private Albert Smith, SX5218 was, according to his nominal roll entry, born 28 Dec 1901 at Watervale, South Australia. My difficulty is that if this photo was taken in 1943 he would have been 42 years old yet he appears to me to be a man in his early fifties, albeit a fit one. Perhaps the truth lies in an Ancestry entry which has an Albert Henry Smith born in Port Adelaide, South Australia on 4 Jun 1884. If this were the same man, he would have been 59 when this photo was taken.

As you can see by his entry in the nominal roll even his unit is vague.

AWM Nominal Roll


Bert Smith, seated



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