Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family pair:

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (2) (Louis Garrett-Smith; Godfrey Garrett Smith) first with minor edge bruise, nearly extremely fine (2) £70-90

The two sons of Godfrey and Cecilia Garrett-Smith:

Louis Garrett-Smith was born on 12 September 1886 in Magdeburg, Germany. He was educated at Horton School, Rugby (1901-05) and the Royal Mining Academy, Freiburg, Saxony (1905-10) where he gained a Diploma of Metallurgical Engineering. During 1910-13 he was Assistant to the Professor of the Metallurgical Department in the Royal Institute of Technology at Breslau, where he took his degree of Doctor of Engineering. He was then employed as an engineer with the Murex Company Ltd., London. With the outbreak of war he was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers Special Reserve on 1st October 1914 and served with the B.E.F. in France and Flanders; going to the front with the 14th Division in May 1915. He was severely wounded in the right side while leading a counter-attack on the morning of 30 July 1915, immediately after the German attack by liquid fire upon the trenches at Hooge. He died of his wounds the next day, aged 28 days. He was buried in the Poperinghe New Military Cemetery.

Godfrey Garrett-Smith was born on 10 December 1890. He was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2nd Battalion The Queen’s Regiment on 13 may 1916. He was killed in action on 11 May 1917 at the battle of Bullecourt. having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. The two sold with copied research details.