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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 12

An O.B.E. Pair Attributed to Major H.C.E. Smithett, York and Lancaster Regiment, Late Seaforth Highlanders
a) The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st type, Military Division, Officer's (O.B.E.) breast Badge, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for London 1919)
b) Coronation 1902, silver, unnamed as issued, good very fine, with the related miniature awards (2)

O.B.E. London Gazette 3.6.1919 Smithett, Maj. Henry Cecil East, r.p. York and Lanc. R. (R. of O.)
'For valuable services rendered in connection with the War.'

Major Henry Cecil East Smithett, O.B.E., (1860-1932), born Windsor, Berkshire; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal London Militia, February 1881; enlisted in the Seaforth Highlanders, May 1883, and advanced Colour-Sergeant; Commissioned Lieutenant, York and Lancaster Regiment, July 1886; appointed Adjutant, 1st Battalion, July 1888; appointed Inspector of Musketry, Hythe, February 1895; promoted Captain, August 1895; Major, 1.7.1904; placed on retired pay, 18.11.1908; served during the Great War as DAAQMG, Wessex Division, and subsequently in command of a Group, Machine Gun Training Centre, and later Commandant, Machine Gun Schools, Grantham; temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, 26.4.1916.

Provenance: Sworders, September 2014 (sold alongside his son's named British War and Victory Medals).

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