1. Listed Bungendore War Memorial Hall WW 1 ROH (1917) and Bygone Queanbeyan as "Cyril T. KIA France 23.9.1917(B)".
2. “MAPPING ANZACS”: Service Number: 2485; POB: Bungendore: POE: Goulburn; NOK: Mother: Laura Smith.
3. AWM Embarkation Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 56 Infantry Battalion - 2 to 9 Reinforcements (April 1916 - January 1917); Age: 22; Occupation: Labourer; DOE: 26.02.1916; Embarked: 30.09.1916. Sydney. HMAT Aeneas.A60.
4. AWM Nominal Roll: Rank: Private; Unit: 56 Battalion; DOE: 26.02.1916: RTA: KIA Belgium .23.09.1917. Commemorated on the Menin Gate, Ypres.
5. See: OUR SOLDIERS BUNGENDORE & THE GREAT WAR. Glenda Ellis .2007 ISBN: 978-1-74027-487-6
6. AWM Photograph P09678.001: Group portrait of Bungendore servicemen in the 55th and 56th Battalions. Identified from left to right, back row: 2489 Private (Pte) Reuben Clarence Smith, 56th Battalion; 2485 Pte Cyril Thomas Smith, 56th Battalion (brother of Reuben Smith) (killed in action in Belgium on 23 September 1917); Tom Murphy (probably 2437 Pte Thomas Joseph Murphy, 56th Battalion); 2455 Pte James Overend, 56th Battalion; and 2414 Pte William Burnett Heath, 56th Battalion. Front row: 2386 Pte Thomas Patrick John Brennan (Bren) Chinnery, 56th Battalion (killed in action in Belgium on 18 October 1917); Bill Smith (probably 2484 Pte William John (Bill) Smith, 56th Battalion); 2456 Pte Thomas Edward (Tom) Overend, 56th Battalion; 3191 Pte John James (Jack) McKie, 55th Battalion; 2434 Pte Ernest John Lee, 56th Battalion (died of wounds in France on 10 April 1918); and 2394 Pte James Heath, 56th Battalion. The men in the front row are holding an Australian flag which features their town name Bungendore.
7. By PJH 03-04-14: It is considered that the Ruben Smith 2241 identified as the first Digger in the AWM Photograph at para 6 above is incorrect. Ruben 2241 was plain Ruben Smith from Candelo and 55 Battalion whilst all the others identified were from Bungendore and 56. Battalion. This Digger in the photograph is deemed to be Ruben Clarence Smith 2489 who RTA He was indeed the brother of Cyril Thomas Smith 2485.Email forwarded to AWM this date.
8. BY PJH 21.04.15.AWM Photograph details has been updated to reflect foregoing comments. See comments above re Brother Ruben Clarence Smith 2489.
9. Commemorated on the ROH in St Thomas' Anglian Church Carwoola, NSW, on the Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour Panel 163 and in the Bungendore Cemetery on the headstone of his younger brother (See photograph attached).
10. Application to use Rising Sun Badge: On 03 November 2015 the Bungendore War Memorial Committee applied to Army Branding to use the Rising Sun badge on a proposed street sign for "Smith" in the town of Bungendore as part of the Centenary of ANZAC Commemorations. This request was approved on 21 December 2015.
11.Last updated January 2016.
