A Great War C.M.G. group of six awarded to Colonel L. F. Smith, Royal Army Medical Corps

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with swivel ring and streight bar suspension and buckle; India General Service 1895-1902, 1 clasp, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (Captn., R.A.M.C.); 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); Special Constabulary Long Service, G.V.R., 2nd issue (Lionel S. Smith (sic)), medals mounted as worn, good very fine and better (6) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Medical Services formed by Colonel D.G.B. Riddick.

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Lionel Fergus Smith was born in Ballinamona, Co. Cork on 13 December 1869. Educated at Dublin University, he was an Erasmus Smith Exhibitor and an Honoursman in Classics, Logics, Modern Literature and Modern History, gaining a B.A.. M.B., B.Ch., B.A.O. Dublin 1894, D.P.H. Dublin 1906. He entered the R.A.M.C. in July 1895, was promoted to Captain in July 1898 and saw service on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1897-98. Promoted to Major in January 1907 and Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1915, he saw active service in the Great War. He was Senior Medical Officer of the Aden Field Force July-August 1915 and afterwards in command of the 28th General Hospital, November 1915-February 1918, seeing service in Greek Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, European Turkey and the islands of the Aegean. For his wartime services he was awarded the C.M.G. in 1917 and three times mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 4 July 1916, 6 December 1916 and 28 November 1917. He attained the rank of Colonel in 1921 and retired in 1925 He died on 8 October 1945.