Walter Manley Smith
Name Walter Manley Smith
Number Corporal 1757
Battalion 58th Battalion
Place of Birth Colac
Next of Kin His friend, Miss Annie Colegate of Meeniyan and later P O Scotswood, P O Kernot and P O Clyde South Gippsland
Date and place of enlistment Leongatha 21/2/1916
Physical details on enlistment Age 22 years and 7 months. 5’ 9”, 10 stone, blue eyes and brown hair
Religion Roman Catholic
Occupation Labourer
Date and place of death
He died of wounds to the abdomen, hand and thigh at the 55th Casualty Clearing Station on 30/9/1918
Location of grave or memorial
He was buried at Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension
Relationship to Woorayl Shire
He seems to have lived and had connections to the Colegate family in the South Gippsland area.
Military History
- He is on Meeniyan Honour Roll
- 4/4/16 Embarked Melbourne on the HMAT Euripides
- 8/5/16 Disembarked Alexandria
- 13/6/16 Embarked Alexandria
- 23/6/16 Disembarked Plymouth
- 1/9/16 he went to France
- 21/9/16 He transferred to the 58th Battalion
- 23/9/16 He joined his unit
- 12/4/17 He was in hospital sick with scabies and impetigo
- 5/5/17 He joined battalion
- 10/5/17 He was shot in the neck
- He was in hospital in Chatham in 1917 after being hit with gunshot in the neck in May. He went via St Denis and Boulogne to England
- 15/11/17 He went back to France
- 15/9/18 He becomes Corporal
- 30/9/18 He died of wounds at the 55th Casualty Clearing Station. He had gun shot wounds to the abdomen, right hand and thigh
- 1/10/18 He was buried at Doingt Extension Cemetery by Rev Fleming
- 22/8/19 The army receive a letter from Richard Little Solicitor of Leongatha regarding the probate on the will of Walter Smith
- He left 1 bay mare to Annie and Alice Jean Colgate, 1 bay filly foal to Herbert James Colgate. The remaining 2/3 to Annie Colgate and 1/3 to Alice Colgate
- The executer was John Colgate of Clyde but now at Kernot who held the will
- His effects were a woolen scarf and 1 pair of socks. There was a parcel of other items.
- His father received the medals, plaque and scroll.