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Auction: 21102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 3
Lot: 308

Three: Captain H. E. H. Clayton-Smith, M.C., King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 23 July 1917

1914-15 Star (Lieut. H. E. H. Clayton-Smith Yorks. L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Lieut. H. E. H. Clayton-Smith), unofficially re-impressed naming; Victory Medal 1914-19 (Capt. H. E. H. Clayton-Smith.), good very fine (3)

[M.C.] London Gazette 1 January 1916.

Horace Edward Henkesfeldt Clayton-Smith was born in 1890 at Rockferry, Cheshire and was a useful cricketer, playing for Pontefract CC (Wisden on the Great War; The Lives of Cricket's Fallen 1914-18, refers). He served in France with the 1st/5th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry from 13 April 1915 - alongside his brother - and earned himself a Military Cross. Clayton-Smith was killed in action on 23 July 1917 and is buried in the Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery. These Medals were claimed by his father, living in Pontefract.

For the Medals of his brother, who was also killed in action, please see Lot 309.

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