Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private P. S. Smith, 25th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force

1914-15 Star (234 Pte. P. S. Smith. 25/Bn A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (234 Pte. P. S. Smith. 25 Bn. A.I.F.) lacquered, good very fine (3) £240-280

Percival Sydney Smith was born in 1878 and attested for the Australian Imperial Force at Brisbane on 28 January 1915. He served with the 25th Battalion at Gallipoli from August 1915, and on the Western Front from 1916. He was wounded in action on 2 September 1918 and was invalided to Weymouth Hospital. He was discharged on 18 January 1919, and died on 29 July 1950.