Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Second Lieutenant J. F. Lappin, Officer Cadet Corps, late Royal Canadian Air Force

U.N. Medal, ONUC (2nd type) ribbon; U.N. Medal, UNDOF ribbon, these unnamed; Canadian Decoration, E.II.R., with Second and Third Award Clasps (Cpl) mounted court style for wear

Efficiency Medal (2), G.VI.R., 1st issue, Canada (A/C.S.M. F. G. Smith, Essex Scot.); another, E.II.R., Canadian issue, unnamed specimen, medal to ‘Smith’ with contact marks, nearly very fine; others extremely fine (5) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Lappin enrolled as a Signaller in the Royal Canadian Air Force in October 1957. He attained the rank of Sergeant in 1984. During his period of service he was on two U.N. missions - the U.N. Mission to the Congo, 1960-64, and the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force for the Golan Heights, 1974. He was released from military service in December 1986. He then transferred to the Officer Cadet Corps where he received a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant. Lappin was awarded the Canadian Decoration and two clasps. He died in 1996. With two cases and inscribed boxes of issue for the Canadian Decoration and Clasps, and with copied research.

Frederick George Smith was born in Westbury, Gloucestershire, on 4 May 1897. During the Great War he served in the Royal Marines, 7 April 1914-30 October 1919. Serving in the Dardanelles, the naval engagement at Jutland and in Siberia, he was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War and Victory Medals. After the war he moved to Canada and joined the Canadian Militia, serving in the Essex Regiment (Tanks), Non-Permanent Active Militia from April 1937. On 4 September 1939 he attested for the Canadian Field Force at Windsor, Ontario. He served in the Essex Scottish and became a Sergeant in June 1940. In July 1940 he went overseas but after a number of spells in hospital and convalescent depots, was returned to Canada in October 1941. He held the rank of Acting Company Sergeant Major, February 1944-February 1945. Smith was discharged in July 1945, returning home to Windsor, Ontario. For his service he was awarded the Defence and War Medals and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with clasp. He was also awarded the Efficiency Medal (Canada) (Canada Gazette 18 November 1944). Later returning to England and living at Chingford, Essex, Smith died on 11 October 1953. With copied research.