Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Second War C.M.G. and Great War M.B.E. group of seven awarded to Captain A. G. H. Smart, Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Air Force, who served for many years in the Colonial Medical Service

The Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, C.M.G., Companion’s neck badge, silver-gilt and enamel, with short section of neck riband for display purposes; The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E. (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1918; 1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. G. H. Smart. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. A. G. H. Smart. R.A.F.); Coronation 1937; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1916, with bronze star emblem on riband, the five Great War awards mounted as worn, the Coronation Medal loose, generally very fine and better (7) £700-£900

C.M.G. London Gazette 1 January 1941:
‘Assistant Medical Advisor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies.’

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 2 June 1917.

Archibald Guelph Holdsworth Smart was born in 1882 and educated at George Watson’s College and Edinburgh University. He was employed as M.D., D.P.H. House Surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and the Colonial Medical Service in Malaya from 1912. During the Great War, he initially joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving with No. 16 Field Ambulance in France from June 1915. Later joining the Royal Air Force, he served with 54th Wing. Awarded the French Croix de Guerre in June 1917, for his services during the Great War Smart was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

Post War Smart returned to Malaya, before being transferred to the West Indies Colonial Medical Service in 1935. Between 1938 and 1940, he served as medical adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies and in January 1941, was created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George for his services in that post. In 1944 he served as UK representative on U.N.R.R.A. Far East sub-committee on health and between 1945 and 1946, was sent on a special mission to British Far East territories on behalf of the Colonial Office. He died on 20 May 1964.

Sold with the recipient’s R.A.M.C. collar badge and small silver identity disc inscribed ‘Captn. A. G. H. Smart R.A.M.C. R.A.F’; and copied research.