{{Short description|Australian military historian}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} '''Graham Robert McKenzie-Smith''', {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100|AM}} is an Australian [[historian]] and [[forester]].
==Military historian== McKenzie-Smith has written books about Australian Second World War army units and movements.<ref>{{Citation |author1=McKenzie-Smith, G |title=The ebb and flow of the Australian Army in Western Australia, 1941 to 1945 |date=1994 |publisher=Grimwade Publications |isbn=978-0-646-17768-7}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |author1=McKenzie-Smith, G |title=Defending the northern gateways: Northern Territory & Torres Strait - 1938 to 1945 |date=1995 |publisher=Grimwade Publications |isbn=978-0-646-24404-4}}</ref> He has been a regular contributor to ''Sabretache'', the journal of the [[Military Historical Society of Australia]].
McKenzie Smith spent some 35 years working on ''The Unit Guide'' – a six-volume box set which gives profiles of all 5,700 units that made up the [[Australian Army]] in the Second World War.
The trove summary for the set states that:
''725,000 Australian men and women joined the Australian Army in World War Two and served in one or more of the 5,700 separate units which were formed in the AIF and AMF... (there were) 5,500 units in the Australian Army during the war (which between them had over 13,700 unit names)...Only 409 (7%) of the units have any published unit history.''
Each unit profile covers what is known of the unit's formation, role, organisation, movements, operations and place in the army's hierarchy, including references to the unit's war diary at the [[Australian War Memorial]].<ref> Trove summary at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/230608187?q&versionId=255327945 </ref> The series was published in 2018,<ref>{{Cite book | author1=McKenzie-Smith, Graham| title=The Unit Guide: The Australian Army 1939–1945 | date=2018 | publisher=Big Sky Publishing|location=Mount Pleasant, Western Australia| isbn=978-1-925675-14-6 }}</ref> and led to the [[Chief of Army (Australia)|Chief of Army]] awarding Graham a Gold Level Commendation presented at the [[Army Museum of Western Australia]] in [[Fremantle]] in November 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|author1=Grant, Steve|title=Rare honour for civvy|date=17 November 2018 |publisher=[[Fremantle Herald]]}}</ref> In the [[2020 Australia Day Honours]] McKenzie-Smith was appointed a [[Member of the Order of Australia]] for "significant service to military history preservation, and to forestry".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2005550|title=Graham Robert McKenzie-Smith|website=honours.pmc.gov.au|access-date=2020-01-25}}</ref>
==Western Australia== McKenzie-Smith's recent works include a book about the coastal defences of [[Albany, Western Australia|Albany]], [[Bunbury, Western Australia|Bunbury]], and [[Fremantle]] in the [[Second World War]],<ref>{{Citation |author1=McKenzie-Smith, G |title=Defending Fremantle, Albany and Bunbury, 1939 to 1945 |date=2009 |publisher=Grimwade Publications |isbn=978-0-9806291-0-1}}</ref> and the [[Royal Australian Engineers]] in Western Australia.<ref>{{Citation | author1=McKenzie-Smith, G | author2=Royal Australian Engineers Association of Western Australia (issuing body.) | title=Sappers in the West: Army Engineers in Western Australia | date=2015 | publisher=Balga, WA Engineers Association of Western Australia Inc | isbn=978-0-646-93060-2 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Gunn, Gail | title=Sappers in the west: Army engineers in Western Australia [Book Review] | journal=Sabretache | publication-date=2015 | volume=56 | issue=3 | pages=55-56 | issn=0048-8933}}</ref>
==Forester== In the 1980s and 1990s McKenzie-Smith was a forester in [[Western Australia]].<ref>{{Citation | author1=McKenzie-Smith, Graham R | author2=Softwood Products (W.A.) Pty Ltd | title=Submission to Dept of Conservation and Land Management on their draft proposal for the re-adjustment of log prices: prepared for Softwood Products (W.A.) Pty Ltd | date=1986 | publisher=The Co | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23215798 | access-date=27 December 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Thomson, A. B | author2=McKenzie-Smith, G | author3=Wood Utilisation Research Centre (W.A.) | author4=Thomson, A | title=Sawn recoveries from crown logs of radiata pine | date=1990 | publisher=Wood Utilisation Research Centre, Dept. of Conservation and Land Management | isbn=978-0-646-01123-3 }}</ref> When resident in [[Canberra]] in the mid-1990s, he was CEO of ACT Forests.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118263900 |title=Drought puts an end to ACT tree-planting plan |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=69 |issue=21,676 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=21 August 1994 |access-date=20 March 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127261077 |title=Pine pilferers to pay the price this season. |newspaper=[[Canberra Times|The Canberra Times (ACT: 1926–1995)]] |location=ACT |date=17 December 1994 |access-date=27 December 2013 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He was also a member of the ACT Bush Fire Council in 1998–2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.esb.act.gov.au/firebreak/actbfc9800.html |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20030119130000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/33161/20030120-0000/www.esb.act.gov.au/firebreak/actbfc9800.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 January 2003 |title=The A.C.T. Bush Fire Council (1998–2000) |via=Pandora: Australia's Web Archive |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=4 February 2019}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
McKenzie-Smith is currently resident in [[Perth]], Western Australia.
==''Sabretache'' articles== * {{cite journal | author1=McKenzie Smith, Graham R | title=Encyclopaedia of the Australian Army, 1939 to 1945 | journal=Sabretache | date=October 1997 | volume=38 | issue=4 | pages=20–30 | issn=0048-8933 }} * {{cite journal |author1=McKenzie-Smith, Graham |title=The unluckiest unit in the Second AIF?: 2/12th Field Ambulance AAMC |journal=Sabretache |date=March 2010 |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=17–20 |issn=0048-8933}} * {{cite journal |author1=McKenzie-Smith, Graham |title=13 field squadron: The oldest unit in the Australian army? |journal=Sabretache |date=December 2011 |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=40–46 |issn=0048-8933}} * {{cite journal |author1=McKenzie Smith, Graham R |title=The numerology of the Second AIF (Infantry) 1939 to 1945 |journal=Sabretache |date=April 1989 |volume=30 |issue=2 |pages=3–11 |issn=0048-8933}} * {{cite journal | author1=McKenzie-Smith, Graham | title=The other Dick Smith and the Sio code books | journal=Sabretache | date=March 2012 | volume=53 | issue=1 | pages=13–16 | issn=0048-8933 }} * {{cite journal | author1=McKenzie-Smith, Graham | title=The army's grocers and truckies: Understanding the Australian Army Service Corps in WW2 | journal=Sabretache | date=March 2015 | volume=56 | issue=1 | pages=16–22 | issn=0048-8933 }} * {{cite journal | author1=McKenzie-Smith, Graham | title='We make 'EM and we break 'EM': Understanding the royal Australian engineers in the Second World War | journal=Sabretache | date=December 2016| volume=57 | issue=4 | pages=43–48 | issn=0048-8933 }} * {{cite journal | author1=McKenzie-Smith, Graham | title='To the warrior his arms': Understanding the Australian army ordnance corps in World War 2 | journal=Sabretache | date= September 2016| volume=57 | issue=3 | pages=13–17 | issn=0048-8933 }}
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