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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 858

Three: Private T. W. Smith, 1/5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, who was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917

1914-15 Star (8653 Pte. T. W. Smith, Essex R.); British War and Victory Medals (8653 Pte. T. W. Smith, Essex R.), good very fine (3)

Thomas William Smith likely first saw action in Gallipoli, where the 1/5th Battalion landed in August 1915. He subsequently fought in the Egypt and Palestine operations and was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza on 26 March 1917. In the supporting attack against Green Hill the Battalion was on the left of the 1/4th Essex and sustained nine officers and 125 men killed with a further nine officers and 157 men wounded.

Aged 24, he was the son of Thomas and Eliza Jane Smith of Green Lance, Crockleford, Elmstead, Essex. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.


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Estimate
£100 to £140

Starting price
£70

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