Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Able Seaman C. L. Smith, Royal Navy

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (J843 Boy 1 Cl., H.M.S. Hyacinth); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (J.843 A.B., H.M.S. Swiftsure); 1914-15 Star (J.843 A.B., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (J.843 A.B., R.N.) good very fine and better (5) £240-280

Able Seaman C. L. Smith, Royal Navy, serving on the destroyer leader H.M.S. Nimrod, died on 9 December 1917. He was buried in St. Mary’s Churchyard, Shotley, Suffolk. H.M.S. Nimrod was part of the Harwich force and gained the battle honour, ‘Belgian Coast 1917’.