Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, Regular Army (7733447 Cpl. J. Smith. D.C.L.I.) minor edge bruise and light contact marks, good very fine £50-£70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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Joseph Smith was born in Greenock, Renfrewshire, in 1892 and attested for the Royal Irish Rifles (Special Reserve) at Belfast on 15 November 1910. He transferred to the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 20 February 1911 and served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Great War, being wounded in action at Gallipoli on 22 May 1915. He was discharged on account of his wounds on 24 December 1915 and was awarded a Silver War Badge. No. 3923.

Smith subsequently joined the Corps of Military Accountants as a Founder Member on 13 December 1920, and served at Didcot until the Corps was disbanded in July 1925, when he transferred to the 2nd Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with gratuity per Army Order 175 of 1933, and was discharged on 25 September 1937.

Sold with full set of service papers.