Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman A. T. Smith, Royal Navy, who server as a submariner during the Great War

1914-15 Star (214575. A. T. Smith, A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (214575. A. T. Smith, A.B. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (214575. Arthur Tom Smith, A.B. H.M.S. Defiance.) very fine and better (4)
£100-£140

Arthur Tom Smith was born in Eastharptree, Somerset on 30 April 1885 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 1st Class. During the Great War, he was serving as an Able Seaman at the Submarine Depot Ship H.M.S. Forth. He served with the B-Class submarine H.M.S. B5 from 1 January 1915 until 30 September 1915 and again from 13 December 1916 until 28 March 1917. From 29 March 1917 until 11 December 1917, he served with the K class submarine H.M.S. K8. Between 12 December 1917 and being invalided from the service on 16 December 1918, Smith served at the Submarine Depot H.M.S. Dolphin and the Royal Navy's torpedo school H.M.S. Defiance.