Auction Catalogue

19 & 20 March 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1270

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20 March 2008

Hammer Price:
£270

Nine: Captain R. H. Smart, Royal Engineers

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (1865647 Sjt., R.E.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (1865647 Sjt., R.E.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (Lt., R.E.), mounted as worn, very fine (9) £260-300

C.S.M. Reginald Henry Smart, R.E., was commissioned and ranked as a War Substantive Lieutenant in December 1941. He was appointed a Temporary Captain in August 1944 and confirmed in that rank in January 1953. Captain Smart retired in 1959.

Sold with the recipient’s Army Certificate of Education (3), 1st, 2nd and 3rd Class; Coronation Medal 1953 Certificate of award to Captain Smart; a letter with envelope addressed to ‘Captain R. H. Smart, 68 Richmond Street, Totterdown, Bristol 3’ re. the award of W.W.2 medals; a photograph album containing photographs of the recipient, colleagues, natives and scenery in India; other loose photographs.