The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface

Pair: Private E. Smithson, Manchester Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (11236 Pte., Manch. R.), officially re-impresed naming, good very fine (2) £30-50

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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Accompanying notes state that Smithson was wounded in the face at Trones Wood on the Somme and taken prisoner. If so, he must have been repatriated as a result of said wounds, for he was discharged in July 1918 and awarded the Silver War Badge.