Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Squadron Sergeant Major A. H. Stevens, Army Pay Corps

Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (1038 S.S.M.jr: A. H. Stevens. A.P.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (1038 S.Sjt: A. H. Stevens. A.P.C.) small dig to reverse of LSGC, polished, good very fine (2) £100-£140

M.S.M. London Gazette 21 February 1919.

Arthur Smith (alias Stevens), a clerk from Glenfield, Leicestershire, was born in 1881 and attested for the West Yorkshire Regiment on 13 January 1898, serving with them in South Africa from 20 October 1899 to 27 August 1904 (entitled to both the Queen’s South Africa and King’s South Africa Medals). Having transferred to the Army Pay Corps on 17 November 1901, he served at Home during the Great War. Appointed staff sergeant major on 22 May 1917, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal in the London Gazette on 21 February 1919 and a ‘B’ Mention In Despatches by the War Office on 25 March 1919. He was discharged on 19 June 1919.

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