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Mar 30, 1895 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1894)
Australian Army officer
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About Walter Edmond Smith
- Walter Edmond (Edmund) Smith, (30 March 1895 – 1976) was an Australian Army officer and industrialist who fought in both World Wars.
- In the First World War, he served in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force north-east of Australia in the New Guinea area then in the Australian Imperial Force on the Western Front from 1916 to 1918.
- In the Second World War, as a brigadier, he commanded the first force deployed in the New Guinea Campaign, Australia's most important military campaign.
- During this campaign, he opposed elements of Australian military policy, and his name was omitted from the official Australian history of the New Guinea Campaign.
- In civilian life he founded Australian engineering firm WE Smith Marine and General Engineer in 1922 (later WE Smith Engineering Pty Ltd) which he managed continuously – except for the period during the Second World War that he undertook full-time military service – until his retirement in the 1970s.
