Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eleven: Colonel F. F. Strother-Smith, Indian Medical Service, Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy

1914-15 Star (Capt. F. F. S. Smith, I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt. F. F. S. Smith); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia (Capt. F. F. Strother-Smith, I.M.S.); War and India Service Medals; Delhi Durbar 1911; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Serbia, Order of St. Sava, 2nd issue, 5th Class breast badge, silver and enamel, some enamel damage mainly to reverse; Vatican, Order of the Holy Sepulchre, breast badge, silver-gilt and enamel, generally good very fine except where stated (11) £450-500

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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M.I.D. London Gazette 6 December 1916.

St. Sava London Gazette not found.

Holy Sepulchre not confirmed.

Fleet Floyd Strother-Smith was born on 30 July 1883. He qualified as a M.D. and Ch.B. at Edinburgh and was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service in July 1908. Promoted to Captain in 1911, he served in Egypt, 1914-15; Gallipoli, 1915; Greek Macedonia, 1916-18 and Persia, 1919. For his services he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Serbian Order of St. Sava. He attained the rank of Colonel in 1928 and retired in July 1940. On 6 October 1939 he was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy. He was re-employed in August 1940 as C.O. of the General Hospital at Deolali. Smith was the author of A Medical Survey of Aden.