Auction Catalogue

25 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 491

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25 September 2008

Hammer Price:
£55

Pair: Private E. Smithson, Manchester Regiment

British War and Victory Medals
(11236 Pte., Manch. R.), officially re-impresed naming, good very fine (2) £30-50

Accompanying notes state that Smithson was wounded in the face at Trones Wood on the Somme and taken prisoner. If so, he must have been repatriated as a result of said wounds, for he was discharged in July 1918 and awarded the Silver War Badge.