LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Thomas Walter SMITH
Service No: 25736
Born: Mullumbimby NSW, 28 June 1910
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 May 1941 (at Brisbane QLD)
Unit: No. 3 Shipping and Stores Unit (later named No. 13 Stores Unit)
Died: Ground Incident, Townsville QLD, 26 November 1942, Aged 32 Years
Buried: Townsville War Cemetery QLD
CWGC Additional Information: Son of George and Florence Ann May Smith; husband of Beryl Rose Smith, of Lismore, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Lismore NSW
Remembered: Panel 114, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 26 November1942, Corporal Smith, a Driver Motor Transport, died of gunshot wounds when a shot was fired by a guard after a verbal challenge by him had been ignored. Corporal Smith had entered a compound to collect motor vehicle.
References:
Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour On-Line Records (RAAF Casualty Information compiled by Alan Storr (409804))
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Department of Veterans’ Affairs On-Line WWII Nominal Roll
National Archives of Australia On-Line Record A9301, 25736