Frank Smyth, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFrank Smyth
New Zealand rugby union player
Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1891
Date of Death: 15-Jul-1972
Profession: rugby union player
Nationality: New Zealand
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Frank Smyth
- Bernard Francis "Frank" Smyth (11 February 1891 – 15 July 1972) was a New Zealand rugby union player.
- A hooker, Smyth played a single representative game for Canterbury in 1915, one match for the South Island in 1922 and was a member of the New Zealand national side, the All Blacks, also in 1922.
- He played three matches for the All Blacks but did not appear in any internationals.
- His grandson is politician Peter Dunne. Smyth served in the No.
- 3 Field Company, New Zealand Engineers, during World War I.
- He enlisted in December 1915 as a sapper, and had risen to the rank of sergeant by the time of his discharge in June 1919.
- He saw action at Ypres, Passchendaele and the Somme, and was mentioned in dispatches, by Sir Douglas Haig on 7 April 1918.
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