Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major R. W. Spencer-Smith, Hampshire Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (Lieut. R. W. Spencer. Smith. Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style, very fine (6) £140-£180

Roland Wingfield Spencer-Smith was born on 13 April 1916, and commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment on 27 August 1936, being promoted to Lieutenant on 27 August 1939; Captain 27 August 1944; Major, 27 August 1949. He served with the 1st Battalion in India and Palestine and retired 1960. He died on 29 May 1988.