Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (5132 Pte. A. Smith. 4th. Rifle Bde:) minor edge nicks, better than very fine and rare to unit £120-£160

Arthur Smith served during the Boer War with the 3rd Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, attached to No. 2 (Bengal) Company, British Mounted Infantry, 1st Somali Camel Corps. The September 2001 O.M.R.S. publication records 21 men of the 3rd Battalion and 11 of the 4th Battalion taking part in the Somaliland Campaign from 1902-04. According to historian Jason Grover in his reference The Rifle Brigade in Somaliland 1903-04: ‘Of the papers that I found at Kew [relating to these 11 men], all had the same entries which identified that they were stationed in India with the 3rd Battalion, went to Somaliland and, after their return to England on 23 June 1904, all transferred to the 4th Battalion with effect from 9 July of that year’ - likely in consequence of coming to the end of their military careers and not being expected to join the 3rd Battalion at their new posting in Aden. Sold with copied research.