Dacre Smyth
Military Person
1923 – 2008
Who was Dacre Smyth?
Dacre Henry Deudraeth Smyth AO was an Australian artist and naval officer who participated in the D-Day landings and the Battle of the Coral Sea. He joined the Royal Australian Navy in 1940, retiring as a commodore in 1978.
He was the son of the distinguished British general Nevill Maskelyne Smyth VC, KCB.
He served as Deputy Chairman of the Trustees of Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance and was a Life Governor of the Shrine. He became well known after his retirement for landscape and seascape painting, publishing fourteen books containing his paintings and poems. He married Jennifer Haggard in 1952, and had four daughters and a son.
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