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19 & 20 July 2017

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Lot

№ 271

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19 July 2017

Hammer Price:
£75

Three: Sapper A. E. Smith, Royal Engineers

1914 Star (11819 Spr: A. E. Smith. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (11819 Spr: A. E. Smith. R.E.) good very fine (3) £70-90

Arthur Edward Smith was born in Shoreditch, London, in 1883, and attested for the Royal Engineers in Tottenham on 27 October 1902. Having transferred to the Army Reserve in 1905, he was recalled to the Colours on 6 August 1914, and served with ‘D’ Company, Royal Engineers during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 August 1914. Having sustained an injury to his left jaw he was sent to England on 30 November 1914. He left Gosport for B.E.F. on 30 April 1915 and went absent without leave until surrendering himself to Military Police at Southampton on 3 May 1915. He was awarded 14 days Field Punishment No. 1 and joined the 4th Fortress Company in the field until posted to the 56th Field Company on 26 June 1915. He was hospitalised in 20th General Hospital and on 7 September 1915 transferred to 7 G Depot, Camiers, returning to England sick on 27 October 1915. He was discharged on 3 November 1915, on termination of his first period of engagement.