New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37477

About

Born in Australia

18 March 1894

Parents

Mother

Thosmine Smale

Father

George Smale

Settled in New Zealand

1906

Residence

Hometown

Waihi

Work

Occupation

Mine Surveyor

Employer

Waihi Gold Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 24

4 April 1918

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5553 32/0105692, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 37.

Photograph

Auckland Weekly News, 18 April 1918.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “Frederick Ernest Smale (1894-1918)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/777