Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Leading Stoker D. J. Smith, Royal Navy, who died in Russia on 24 September 1919

1914-15 Star (297225, D. J. Smith, Sto.1, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (297225 D. J. Smith. Act. L. Sto. R.N.) good very fine (3) £100-£140

David John Smith was born in Shadwell, London, on 8 February 1882, and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker 2nd Class on 25 April 1901. Advanced Stoker 1st Class on 14 July 1906, he served during the Great War in H.M.S. Audacious, Broke, Diligence, and Vanity Blake, as well as a number of shore-based establishments, and was promoted Leading Stoker on 19 June 1918. Posted to H.M.S. Carlisle on 28 February 1919, he served in her on the China Station, and died in Vladivostock Military Hospital from a fractured spine on 24 September 1919. He is buried in Pokrovskaya Cemetery, Vladivostock, and is additionally commemorated on the Vladivostock Memorial, Russia, and also on the Russia Memorial at Brookwood, Surrey.

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