Auction Catalogue

2 December 2009

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 480 x

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2 December 2009

Hammer Price:
£880

Five: Gunner W. Smart, Royal Field Artillery

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (12776 Gunr., 57th Fd. By. R.A.) unofficial rivets between 1st and 2nd clasps; China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (12276 Guner. (sic), 12th Baty. Rl. Fd. Artry.); 1914 Star, with clasp (12776 Gnr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (12776 Gnr., R.A.) note variation in service number, edge bruising, contact marks, nearly very fine and better (5) £450-500

With copied roll extract for the India General Service Medal - one of three members of the 57th Field Battery entitled; roll extract for the China Medal 1900 and m.i.c. The latter showing entry into the France/Flanders theatre of war on 16 August 1914, serving with the 4th Brigade; later with the R.G.A.