Veteran Notes/Bio
1. Listed Bygone Queanbeyan as (Bungendore), Bungendore War Memoriall Hall ROH and Collinson" Final List".
2. DVA Nominal Roll:DATE/POB;02.04.1918/ Bungendore;DATE/POE;05.09.1941/Bungendore;LOCALITY ON ENLISTMENT;Bungendore ;NOK;Sidney Smith; DISCHARGE DATE /UNIT:03.11.1944/36 Battalion
3.Stephenson: Died at home Butmaroo Streeet Bungendore 23 August 1988 aged 71 . Son of the late Sidney and Francis Smith.Husband of Joan,father of Michael, Lyn,Beth, Greg,Chris,Helen and Janelle.He was a member of the 3rd Battalion.Buried in Lawn section.Headstone.
4. Battalion was absorbed into the 36 Battalion in 1943.
5. Canberra Times 8.11.1967:MAN WHO HUNTS SNAKES
Bungendore district woolgrower who has captured alive thousands of deadly snakes is to assume the role of proxy instructor in snake lore for NSW country school children.
State Police are to consult him before lecturing to classes on the hazard from reptiles during the coming Christmas vacation.
The farmer, Mr Smith, was in the news las summer when in a fev months he caught ove 3,000 snakes, hundreds of which were to fill an order from laboratories manufacturing antivenene for use by troops in Vietnam.
This brought his total to more than 6000 in the few seasons since he realised that supplying the laboratories offered a profitable solution to the problem of how to use fully rid his farm of swarms of reptiles emerging from hibernation at the end of each winter.
Mr Smith's 800-odd acre property is on the shores of Lake George, and the dangerous reptiles — mostly ultra-venomous tiger snakes — thrive in the marshy foreshores, rated by zoologists as among the most infested country in inland Australia.
Mr Smith's 1967 "season" began last weekend.
He said last week he expected his catch to be made at the same rate as previous "seasons" .
Some of the snakes go to research workers in Canberra, but most are consigned in sealed boxes; to the National Reptile Park at Gosford, NSW, where they are "milked" of venom.
This is sent in processed form to the Common wealth Serum Laboratories at Parkville. Victoria, to be turned into antivenene for modern snakebite treatment of humans.
Last updated 11.09.2014.
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