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Corporal GEORGE HOWATT SMIRTHWAITE

Service Number: 134
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Engineers

15th Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 24 December 1916

Age 28 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE

VI. G. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of John Alcock Dixon Smirthwaite and Agnes Jane Howatt Smirthwaite, of Gilgandra, New South Wales. Native of Ilford, New South Wales.
  • Personal Inscription GOD BE WITH YOU TILL WE ALL MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

HEILLY STATION CEMETERY, MERICOURT-L'ABBE
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2973
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