Orders, Decorations and Medals

An Electrical Officer’s O.B.E. and ‘Far East’ D.S.C. group of eight awarded to Commander E. W. Smith, Royal Navy

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 2nd type; Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1946’; British War Medal (M.28969 E. W. Smith, E.A. 5 R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals, good very fine (8) £400-500

O.B.E. London Gazette 2 January 1950: Commander (L), Director of Naval Electrical Department.

D.S.C. London Gazette 11 June 1946: ‘For distinguished service during the war in the Far East:- Lieutenant (Elec.) Edward Walter Smith, H.M.S. Implacable.’

The aircraft carrier Implacable took part in operations against German convoy traffic off the Norwegian West Coast, August to December 1944. In 1945 she moved to the Central Pacific where she took part in numerous air strikes against targets in Japan and her islands.