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Auction: 13002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 14

A Great War M.C. Group of Three Attributed to Lieutenant T. Smith, Army Service Corps
a) Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued
b) British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. T. Smith.), good very fine, with a contemporary newspaper cutting detailing the M.C. citation (3)

M.C. London Gazette 16.9.1918 T./2nd Lt. Turberville Smith, A..S.C.
'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in successfully getting away the guns of a siege battery, in spite of the road along which it was necessary for his motor tractors to pass being under permanent shell fire in enfilade for about 5,000 yards. He showed a fine example of courage and resource.'

Three Lieutenants with the name T. Smith were awarded the Military Cross during the Great War, of the Royal Fusiliers, East Lancashire Regiment, and the Army Service Corps.

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