Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Private S. Smith, 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders

Military Medal, G.V.R. (S-22877 Pte. S. Smith. 1/Cam: Hdrs); British War and Victory Medals (S-22877 Pte. S. Smith. Camerons) some staining, very fine (3) £300-£400

M.M. London Gazette, 23 February 1918.

Sydney Smith, a credit draper from Hucknall, Nottinghamshire, attested in the Cameron Highlanders on 23 November 1915, for service during the Great War, and served with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front.

Sold with copy Medal Index Card, copy London Gazette entry and copy Beeston Gazette and Echo article, with photograph of the recipient, from 9 February 1918 ‘Pte. Sydney Smith, of Hucknall, with the Cameron Highlanders, who has been awarded the Military Medal... It was last November when he won the Military Medal for rescuing wounded men under fire and digging them out...’