Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Honorary Major E. L. Smith-Masters, Royal Signals, late Royal Engineers

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. L. Smith-Masters.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army Emergency Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., reverse officially dated ‘1954’ and privately engraved ‘Major E. L. Smith-Masters. R.E., R. Signals 1915-1944 France, Mesopotamia, N. Africa, U.K.’, with Second Award Bar dated ‘1954’ and Army Emergency Reserve top riband bar, the first four mounted as worn, the last loose in Royal Mint case of issue; together with the related miniature awards (the last a G.VI.R. rather than E.II.R. example), these similarly mounted, good very fine (5) £140-£180

Ernest Leslie Smith-Masters was born in Berkshire on 23 November 1889, the son of the Reverend John Ernest Cowburn Smith-Masters. Educated at Haileybury School, he was appointed to a commission in the Royal Engineers on 13 January 1915 and served in Mesopotamia from January 1916. Transferring to the Royal Signals, he was conferred with the Award of the Army Emergency Reserve Decoration in the London Gazette of 4 June 1954.