Edmund SMEETON

SMEETON, Edmund

Service Number: 397
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 4th Division Cyclist Company
Born: Nottinghamshire, England, 1887
Home Town: Kununoppin, Shire of Trayning, Western Australia
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Illness, Devonport , United Kingdom, 22 September 1916
Cemetery: Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Devon, England,
Grave ref. Church C.4958. Personal Inscription THY WILL BE DONE , Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery, Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Trayning War Memorial
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Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon

5th Company Australian Cyclist Corps 

He was 29 and  the son of Edmund and Alice Mary Smeeton of 28 Glebe Street, London Road, Nottingham.

Nottingham Evening Post notice (abridged), 25 September 1916: 'Smeeton. At Devonport on Friday, September 22nd of fever, Private Edmund Smeeton, Australian Imperial Forces, son of Edmund and Alice Smeeton, 28 Glebe Street. Nottingham.'

He is remembered on the Nottingham South (Meadows & West Bridgford) Virtual War Memorial.

Births Jun 1887   
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