Edward Smart


Lieutenant General Edward Kenneth Smart DSO, MC was a career officer in the Australian Army, and subsequently a diplomat.

Ken Smart was bornMay 1891 in Kew, an inner suburb of Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at Melbourne C.E.G.S . He was commissioned into the Corps of Australian Engineers as a Second Lieutenant onJuly 1910. OnDecember 1910 he was promoted to Lieutenant with RAGA , and by 1914 was an officer of the Siege Artillery Brigade commanded by Lt Col Walter Adams Coxen. OnJune 1915 he married Phyllis E Robertson.

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