Queensland’s Last ANZAC

Arthur Smout

Sgt Edward David (Ted) Smout OAM was Queensland’s Last Anzac who died on 22 June 2004. A man, who typically at the time lied about his age to enlist, survived the ravages of war after spending some time fighting at the Somme in 1918. He was an eyewitness to the final moments of the infamous “Red Baron, Manfred von Richtofen. He was discharged on 8 September 1919 10 months following the Armistice on 11 November 1918.
Smout was awarded France’s highest honour, a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur in 1998 and an OAM for service to the community. The Ted Smout Memorial Bridge which crosses Bramble Bay linking Clontarf and Brighton was named in his honour in 2009.