Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

The D.S.O. group of six miniature dress medals attributed to Major Sir T. G. L. Lumley-Smith, 21st Lancers
Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamels; Order of St John, silver-gilt and enamel; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves; Coronation 1937, court mounted by Spink and contained in a contemporary Spink case, good very fine

The group of seven miniature dress medals attributed to Captain C. H. Lumley-Smith, 16th/5th Lancers
Order of St John, silver and enamel; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp 1st Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya, court mounted by Spink and contained in a contemporary Spink case, the lid gold embossed ‘Capt. C. H. Lumley-Smith 16/5 Lancers’, good very fine (13) £140-£180

Major Sir Thomas Gabriel Lumley Lumley-Smith was born on 27 October 1879, oldest son of Sir Lumley Smith, K.C., Judge of City of London and Central Criminal Courts, 1901-13. Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was commissioned into the 21st Lancers in 1900; served in Egypt and Gallipoli, 1915, and in France and Belgium, 1916-19, with 3rd Division and Cavalry Corps (despatches twice; D.S.O., 3 June 1918). Member of Council and Hon. Registrar, Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor; Grand Secretary of Mark Master Masons; Knight of Justice of the Order of St John and one of H.M.’s Lieutenants for the City of London. He died on 16 February 1961.