Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
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Lot 2865 SESSION 14 (2.30PM THURSDAY 23RD NOV) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Estimate $800
Bid at live.noble.com.au
PAIR TO KIA: British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 3892 Pte C.H.Smith 30 Bn. A.I.F. Both medals impressed. Very fine.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 87 (lot 5105).
Together with a Memorial Plaque named to Charles Henry Smith; a bronze Rising Sun hat badge (KC), by K.G.Luke, Melbourne; The pair of medals and the Memorial Plaque, which has been silver-plated, are in a small timber frame under glass, and the frame is loose.
Charles Henry Smith, coalminer, age 23, born at Erskineville, Sydney, NSW; Enl.08Mar1916 at RAS Showground, Sydney, NSW; Emb.24Aug1916; various punishments for being asleep on duty or AWL; to France 05Dec1916; TOS 30Bn 29Dec1916; KIA 30Sep1917 at France; Buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery, Zillebeke near Ypres.
Note: Charles Henry Smith's real name was George Thomas Maurice May, but he enlisted and served under the name of Charles Henry Smith.
Together with research and a colour photo of the grave of Pte C.H.Smith.
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