Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.C.M. awarded to Company Sergeant-Major J. H. Smith, Royal Engineers

Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (17858 C.S. Major, R.E., 23.2.00) good very fine £600-700

D.C.M. London Gazette 8 February 1901; details19 April 1901. ‘17858 Company-Sergeant-Major J. H. Smith and 1528 Sapper Trash, 17th Company, Royal Engineers, 23rd February - Coolness and gallant behaviour when making sandbag wall across railway bridge at Langerwachte Spruit under heavy fire.’

Company Sergeant-Major J. H. Smith was presented the D.C.M. by the King at St. James’s Palace on 25 July 1901. He was entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Relief of Ladysmith, Tugela Heights, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek.