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30221 Col RH (Bob) Smith, OBE

Colonel Bob Smith entered RMC Duntroon in February '43, to graduate in December '44, serve in J Force, and complete a Long Gunnery Staff Course (AA) in UK. He was well-known in the Regiment through his time at the School, and as BMRA at Div HQ, Linton.

At a memorial service at Takapuna RSA, a large number of members heard from Max Tebbutt - classmate, Les Pearce - Bob's CO when he served in Malaya in an infantry battalion, and Maj Gen Ron Hassett with reference to his artillery appointments.

Newsletter 102
June 1999

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