SMITH, Lindsay Stuart (1893-1917).JPG)
L S Smith (War Service).
Lindsay Stuart Smith was born on 25 January 1893 at Kyeamba Station, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, the sixth of nine children of Alexander 'Alick' Smith and Isabella nee Marr. Hid grandfather, John Smith of Scotland, landed in Sydney in 1832, and pioneered Kyeamba, settling there in 1837.
Lindsay Smith was educated as a boarder at Geelong College from 1903 until 1909. After leaving School, he engaged in pastoral pursuits with his brother Stanley until his enlistment in the AIF on 31 July 1915.
He left Melbourne with 23 Battalion (7th Reinforcement Group), on 26 November 1915 on
HMAT A73 Commonwealth. In Egypt he transferred as a bombardier (No. 3235) to 113 Howitzer Battery, 13th Field Artillery Brigade, and went straight to the front in France in July 1916. He worked continuously there until he was killed in action while working his gun on 15 April 1917 at Lagnicourt - the German counter-stroke. He was buried at Bancourt British Cemetery - Grave II.K.8.
The
Geelong Advertiser reported his death in May 1917:
'Mr Alex Smith, of Wagga (New South Wales), has been notified that his son, Bombardier Lindsay S Smith, has been killed in action in France. Educated at the Geelong College, Bombr. Smith was a young man having exceedingly bright prospects. He was 24 ears of age, and since his school days had been engaged with his brothers on Kyeamba Station, in which, with their father, they were interested. Since July 16, 1916 he has been constantly engaged in the trenches in France.' His brother, Stanley Gordon Smith (1890-1957) was also educated at Geelong College.
Sources: Geelong Advertiser 22 May 1917 p4; Geelong Collegians at the Great War compiled by James Affleck. p113 (citing Pegasus; Australian War Memorial; Photo Pegasus August, 1917.)