REAL ADVENTURERS
"ANZAC" AIRMEN KINGSFORD SMITH AND ULM Although he is only 31 years old, Captain Kingsford Smith, M.C., has packed, into his life a remarkable amount of variety and adventure. He was bom in Brisbane, but before he was a year old his parents went to live in Sydney, He is the youngest of seven children. When he was six years old the family; moved to Canada, and lived in Vancouver for several years. When Kingsford Smith was twelve, the family returned to Sydney. They; were members of St. Andrew's congregation, and Kingsford Smith was for three years a member of the cathedral choir. He was intensely fond of machinery, and his father indentured him as an apprentice to an clecirical engineering firm. When the Avar broke out, Kiugsford Smith was only seventeen and an apprentice electrician, but nothing could, stop him from enlisting, and early in 1915 his parents gave their reluctant consent, and the boy of eighteen went off as a dispatch rider with tho En(Continued on next page.)
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 12
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