LEST WE FORGET
Corporal Edward George SMITH
Service No: 62834
Born: Croydon, England, 24 August 1903
Enlisted in the RAAF: 16 March 1942 (at Sydney NSW)
Unit: No. 14 Aircraft Repair Depot
Died: Illness, Darwin NT, 20 September 1944, Aged 41 Years
Buried: Adelaide River War Cemetery NT
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Edward Maurice George and Caroline Emily Smith; husband of Edith Mabel Smith, of Hillview, New South Wales
Roll of Honour: Liverpool NSW
Remembered: Panel 113, Commemorative Area, Australian War Memorial, Canberra ACT
On 31 August 1944, Corporal Smith, an Aircraft hand, was admitted to No. 1 Medical Receiving Station, Darwin, seriously ill with a Subarachnoid Haemorrhage and he died on 20 September 1944.
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 A705, 166/38/670