Ancestor Details
Name of Ancestor: David Hugh Cunningham Smyth
Ancestor's date of birth: 1878
Ancestor's date of death: 1960
Cause of Death: Detail not provided
Service Number: 110
Colony or State of enlistment: SA, Place of Enlistment: Detail not provided
Unit: 4th South Australian Imperial Bushman
Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: On enlistment
Highest Rank attained (if served after war): No record of post Boer War service
Murray Page: 362
Contingent: Fourth South Australian
Ship: Manhattan, Date of Sailing: 01/05/1900
Memorial details: Detail not provided
Decorations: Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps.
Personal Characteristics: Detail not provided
Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided
Details of service in war: June 1900 - June 1901 in Cape Colony including charge at Bakenkop (3 July 1900) and skirmish at Stinkhoutboom where three killed (24 July 1900), and in northern Transvaal including battle of Rhenoster Kop (29 November 1900), great De Wet hunt, and advance on Pietersburg and into east Transvaal.
Service and life after the Boer War: Married Grace Walters on his return and migrated to WA to farm in the Williams Shire.
Descendant Details
Name of Descendant: Heather Cook, Darkan WA
Relationship to Ancestor: Granddaugther
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