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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 749

(x) Four: Colour-Sergeant F. G. B. Smith, King's Royal Rifle Corps

1914-15 Star (8385 Sjt. F. G. B. Smith, K. R. Rif: C.); British War and Victory Medals (8385 A-C-Sjt. F. G. B. Smith, K. R. Rif. C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (6837195 Sjt. F. G. B. Smith, K.R.R.C.), contact marks, nearly very fine (4)

Frederick George B. Smith was born at Woolwich, Kent in 1889. He served in France from 20 December 1914 with the 3rd Battalion, King's Royal Rifle Corps, landing at Le Havre as part of the 80th Brigade in the 27th Division. The Battalion saw action at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915. He married Kathleen M. Hipwood at Winchester in 1926, but died in 1929 at Eastleigh, Hampshire.

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