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This year I am going to write about my father, Bede Smith.
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| Captain Bede Smith 1942 |
Here's a brief synopsis of his life:
Bede Smith was the first in his family to
go to university, where he studied dentistry. He captained the University of
Sydney cricket team and could have become a full-time cricketer, but the
Depression was on, so he took up his profession and worked as a small town
dentist in Henty, New South Wales, while saving money to travel to Canada to
further his education. He was on the
ocean journey across the Pacific when World War 2 broke out. He continued on to
Canada and completed postgraduate studies at the University of Toronto. While in
Toronto, he fell in love and married a Canadian girl and had a daughter. As the
war continued, he enlisted and fought with the Canadian Army in the Canadian Dental
Corps, landing in Normandy and seeing action in Northern Europe. After VE Day
he volunteered for the Pacific Force, and returned to Canada to start training
for jungle warfare, but peace in the Pacific saved him from that fate. In 1946,
he brought his Canadian wife and child to live in Sydney, Australia. He bought
a dental practice in Sydney and had two more children. After turning 50, he had
a mid-life crisis and decided to change direction. He sold his private practice
and moved to Perth, Western Australia to lecture in the Dental Faculty at UWA.
In his spare time he enrolled in a Bachelor of Arts Degree, but then fell sick
with cancer, and died at age 55.
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