Orders, Decorations and Medals

The mounted group of four miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel G. M. C. Smith, Indian Medical Service

Order of St. Michael and St. George, silver-gilt and enamel; India General Service 1895-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, Waziristan 1901-02; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn, good very fine and better (4) £140-160

George MacIver Campbell Smith was born on 13 May 1869, the son of Robert Smith, M.D., of Sedgefield, Co. Durham. Educated at Haileybury and Aberdeen University, he gained the M.A. in 1888 and M.B. and C.M. Aberdeen in 1891 and was appointed a M.R.C.P. London in 1907. He entered the Indian Medical Service as a Surgeon Lieutenant in 1892 and was promoted to Surgeon Captain in 1895. He served with the Chitral Relief Force, 1895, the Mohmand and Tirah Expeditionary Forces 1897 - including the actions at Chagru Kotal, Dargai and Sampagha Pass and operations in the Waran and Bara Valleys, and in Waziristan 1901-02. Smith was promoted Major in 1904 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1912. During the Great War he served with the Mesopotamian and Egyptian Expeditionary Forces, 1917-18, for which service he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.M.G. Lieutenant-Colonel Smith retired from the service in 1921 and died on 3 December 1946.