Five: Lieutenant Vincent Smyth, Royal Field Artillery and Calcutta Light Horse

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed; Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Tpr., Calcutta L.H. A.F.I.) impressed naming, mounted court style for wear, minor edge bruising, very fine and better (10) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Vincent Smyth served in the Calcutta Light Horse and as a Lance-Corporal was awarded the Delhi Durbar. During the Great War he was granted a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant (on probation) from an Officer Cadet Unit in the Special Reserve of Officers, Royal Field Artillery, on 7 July 1916. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 7 January 1918. Continuing his service as a Trooper in the Calcutta Light Horse after the war, he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, published in I.A.O. 568 of August 1928. In civilian life he was latterly Manager of the firm Birkmyre Brothers of Calcutta and Bombay.

Sold with identity disk, ‘Smyth V, 2nd Lt. R.F.A., C.E.’; a mounted set of four miniature dress medals (as above but lacking ‘Defence’ and Vol. L.S. is an E.VII.R. issue), and riband bar; with copied research.