Arnold Ashton Smith

First Name: 
Arnold
Middle Name: 
Ashton
Last Name: 
Smith
Mother's Name: 
Emily Smith nee Tillbrook
Father's Name: 
Ashton Smith
Date Enlisted: 
Monday, August 17, 1914
Rank at Enlistment: 
Private
Rank at Discharge: 
Private
Unit: 
2nd Battalion
Company: 
Headquarters Signaller
Service: 
Infantry
Awards: 
1914/1915 Star
British War Medal
Victory Medal
Date of Death: 
Tuesday, August 10, 1915
Place of Death: 
Lone Pine, Gallipoli
Cause of Death: 
Killed in action
Details: 

Arnold Smith (Service No 905) was born in Walcha, N.S.W. in 1893.  He attended Wollongong Public School and served as a signaler in the Junior and Senior Cadets.

At enlistment Arnold was single, 21 years old, worked as a farmer, and was living at Haberfield in Sydney.

He embarked from Sydney on HMAT A23 Suffolk with H Company, 2nd Battalion, on 18th October 1914.  The troops arrived in Egypt in December 1914 and on 13th January 1915 Arnold was transferred to 2nd Battalion Headquarters as a signaller. He arrived on Gallipoli on 25th April and served until 18th May 1915 when he was admitted to hospital sick, but he returned to his duties on 30th May.

Arnold was killed in action at Lone Pine sometime between 7th and 14th August 1915 and is buried in Lone Pine Cemetery: Special Memorial Row C No 134.

Sources: 
NAA: B2455, SMITH A A