Lot Archive

Lot

№ 1066

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2 July 2003

Hammer Price:
£170

Pair: Private H. E. Smith, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

British War and Victory Medals (R-31915 Pte., K. R. Rif. C.); together with Memorial Plaque (Harry Ernest Smith) extremely fine (3) £50-60

Harry Ernest Smith was born in Camberwell, Surrey and enlisted at St. Pancras, Middlesex. Serving with the 17th Battalion K.R.R.C. he was killed in action, France / Flanders, 10.2.1917, aged 37 years. He was buried at the Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.