Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain N. M. Smith, Royal Army Medical Corps, who died of wounds in Palestine in December 1917

1914-15 Star (Lieut., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.), extremely fine (3) £300-350

Norman McGaan Smith was born in 1892, the son of Adam Smith of Abbotsford House, St. Clair, Port of Spain, Trinidad, and was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University, from which latter establishment he graduated in medicine in 1915. Appointed a Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in July of the same year, he died of wounds in Palestine on 12 December 1917, aged 25 years, while attached to the 1/2nd East Anglian Field Ambulance (T.F.). Smith was buried in Ramleh War Cemetery.