Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Serjeant T. Smith, 2/7th (Leeds Rifles) West Yorkshire Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (267466 Sjt., 2/7 W. York. R.-T.F.); British War and Victory Medals (267466 Sjt., W. York. R.) mounted for wear; Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., 3rd issue (Thomas Smith) good very fine and better (4) £300-360

M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1918.

Thomas Smith was born in Lancaster and was educated at Ripley Hospital, Lancaster, 1891-95. He attested for the Border regiment at Preston on 29 December 1899, aged 18 years, 2 months and was transferred to the Army Reserve in December 1907 and discharged on 28 December 1911. At the time of his marriage in 1909 he was employed as a Prison Warder. He re-enlisted in to the West Yorkshire Regiment on 23 May 1916 and served in the 2/7th Battalion (Leeds Rifles). Transferred to the Army Reserve on 14 February 1919. Between the wars he was living at 26 Lymm Avenue, Lancaster.

With Ripley Hospital letter of recommendation; Small Book; Parchment Certificate of Service (Border Regiment); Certificate Showing Qualifications in Military Subjects, 1903; Certificate of Transfer to Reserve, 1919; copy of marriage certificate; Cumberland Building Society Pay Book; photographs (9); with copied gazette extract and m.i.c. and cap badge added for display purposes.