Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Petty Officer N. H. Smith, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Inflexible at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (207575. N. H. Smith, A.B., H.M.S. Hyacinth.); Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (207575. N. H. Smith, Ldg. Sean., H.M.S. Hyacinth.); British War Medal 1914-20 (207575. N. H. Smith. P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (207575. N. H. Smith. P.O. H.M.S. Inflexible.) light contact marks, nearly very fine (4) £240-£280

Norman Herbert Smith was born in Poddington, Befordshire, on 26 May 1883 and enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 2 August 1902. After earlier service off the Somaliland Coast and in the Persian Gulf, his Great War service was in H.M.S. Inflexible where he saw service at the Battle of the Falklands in 1914, at Gallipoli in 1915, and was present the following year at the Battle of Jutland. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 10 June 1916. Advanced Chief Petty Officer on 1 May 1922, he was shore pensioned on 5 May 1923.