Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg (Revd. Sydney. E. Smith. C to F.) extremely fine £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell.

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Provenance: John Chidzey Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012.

Sydney Edward Smith was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was ordained Deacon in 1887 and Priest in 1888. He served as Curate of Yiewsley, Middlesex, 1887-89, and of St. Agnes, Kennington Park, London, 1890-95. Appointed Chaplain to the Forces from 1896, he served in London, 1897-99, and South Africa, from 1899.