Kingsford Smith, Charles, Sir, 1897-1935

LC control no.	n 50048534
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Kingsford Smith, Charles, Sir, 1897-1935 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Smith, Charles Kingsford, Sir, 1897-1935 Smithy, 1897-1935 Kingsford-Smith, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir, 1897-1935
Associated country	Australia
Located	Vancouver (B.C.)
Birth date	1897-02-09
Death date	1935-11-08?
Place of birth	Brisbane (Qld.)
Place of death	Bengal, Bay of
Profession or occupation	Air pilots
Found in	His Story of "Southern cross" ... 1928. Historical souvenir record, 1978: t.p. (Sir Charles Kingsford Smith) Smithy, 1999: t.p. (Charles Kingsford Smith) p. 1 (born 9 Feb. 1897) LC database, Nov. 10, 2016 (heading: Kingsford-Smith, Charles Edward, Sir, 1897-1935; usage in works by him: Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, C.E. Kingsford-Smith; usage in works about him: Charles Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith) Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, viewed Nov. 10, 2016 (Smith, Sir Charles Edward Kingsford, aviator; known colloquially as Smithy; referred to as Kingsford Smith in article; b. Feb. 9, 1897, Brisbane, Australia; in 1903 the Smith family moved to Vancouver, Canada; there they adopted the composite surname Kingsford Smith; this was an unconventional though practical measure that enabled ease of identification in a new country; Kingsford Smith returned to Australia, Jan. 1921; on Nov. 6, 1935, he began an England-Australia journey; after passing over Calcutta about midnight on Nov. 7, heading for Singapore, he and companion J.T. "Tommy" Pethybridge were lost at sea on Nov. 8, probably in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of Burma, where one of the wheels of their plane was washed ashore two years later) Australian dictionary of national biography WWW site, viewed Nov. 10, 2016 (Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles Edward)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	nb 99046409