A Dunkirk casualty’s group of three awarded to Company Sergeant-Major F. C. Smith, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, together with recipient’s original M.I.D. certificate in the name of ‘Company Sergeant-Major F. C. Smith, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment’, dated 26 July 1940, extremely fine (3) £80-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Frank Charles Smith was killed in action at Bray Dunes, Dunkirk on 29 May 1940, aged 40 years.

Born in Handsworth, Birmingham in April 1900, he originally enlisted in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in May 1918 and was discharged to the Army Reserve in December 1937. Recalled on the renewal of hostilities, he was appointed a Company Sergeant-Major in his old regiment and embarked for the B.E.F. in France. He left a widow, Mary Eveline Smith, of Preen’s Eddy, Shropshire.