ART03179 - Captain Ross Smith
Image copyright: © Australian War Memorial
- ID number
- ART03179
- Title
- Captain Ross Smith
- Artist
- McInnes, W B
- Object type
- Painting
- Place made
- Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
- Date made
- 1920
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurement
- overall: 76.2 x 63.8 cm
- Collection
- Art
- Description
- Captain Sir Ross Macpherson Smith, KBE, MC and Bar, DFC and two Bars, AFC, MID, is perhaps best know for his flight from England to Australia with his brother Keith, and J M Bennett and W H Shiers in November 1919. He served with the Light Horse in Gallipoli and joined No1 Squadron Australian Flying Corps as an observer in 1916. As a pilot he shot down thirteen enemy machines, and the record of his individual exploits reveals courage and skill of a high order. He was killed in an aeroplane accident in 1922.
