Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: George Smith, Ship’s Cook, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1793-1840, 1 clasp, Syria (Geo. Smith); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., Anchor obverse (George Smith, Ships Cook, H.M.S. Excellent. 26 Years); St Jean d’Acre 1840, bronze, this with traces of having been sometime silvered, very fine (3) £1400-1600

Nine men of this name on the roll for Syria, any one of whom could have become a ship’s cook later in their career. Long Service medal confirmed on Douglas-Morris’s roll as having been issued on 26 June 1847, and as being entitled to medal for Syria.