Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Military M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel D. P. Smith, Royal Engineers

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 2nd type breast badge, silver; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1st Army clasp; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, officially dated ‘1951’, all unnamed as issued, war medals with adhesive marks to the reverse, good very fine (7) £140-180

M.B.E. London Gazette 28 June 1945. ‘Major (temporary) Donald Padden Smith (71724), Corps of Royal Engineers (Birmingham 20)’.

Sold with a bound copy of Field Service Pocket Book Pamphlets - folder inscribed in ink, ‘Capt. D. P. Smith R.E.’; Efficiency Decoration forwarding slip, conferred on 15 June 1951, addressed to ‘Lt. Colonel D. P. Smith, T.D.’, and with a brass napkin ring inscribed, ‘Donald Padden Smith, M.B.E., Royal Engineers’ and further inscribed with his places of service for the years 1939-45.