Lot Archive

Lot

№ 939

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£90

Three: Bombardier A. Smith, Royal Field Artillery

1914-15 Star
(25536 Bmbr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (25536 Bmbr., R.A.), good very fine and better (3) £60-80

Absalom Smith was killed in action in the battle of Cambrai on 30 November 1917, while serving in ‘C’ Battery, 92nd Brigade, R.F.A. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Cambrai Memorial.