Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: Frankland Smith
Ancestor's date of birth: 27/04/1877
Ancestor's date of death: 27/12/1949
Cause of Death: Detail not provided
Service Number: 491
Colony or State of enlistment: VIC, Place of Enlistment: Maryborough
Unit: 4th Imperial Bushmen
Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No evidence of post Boer War service
Murray Page: 271
Contingent: Fourth Victorian
Ship: Victorian, Date of Sailing: 01/05/1900
Memorial details: Boer War Memorial Melbourne.
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps.
Personal Characteristics: A surveyor by profession.
Reasons to go and fight: Proud to be defending the empire
Details of service in war: May 1900 - June 1901 in Rhodesia, west Transvaal under Cape Colony under Henniker including relief of Philipstown (11 February 1901), capture of Boer guns at Read's Drift (23 February), and capture of Boer patrol near Doornkloof (1 March 1901).
Service and life after the Boer War: Returned to Maryborough Vic, Married Edith Beryl Kenden In 1905. They Raised 5 Children, his occupation was a Surveyor, as was his Father and Grandfather
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Sharon June Broad, Maryborough VIC 3465
Relationship to Ancestor: Grandaughter
