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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 281

Pair: Warrant Officer Class 2 G. I. Smalldon, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (4179835 Cpl. G. I. Smalldon, R. W. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., Regular Army (4179835 W.O.Cl.II. G. I. Smalldon. R. W. Fus.), very fine (2)

George Isaac Smalldon was born in West Ham, Essex on 13 March 1900 and he joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 16 April 1918, a haulier by trade living at Cadoxton, Glamorgan. He served at home, being discharged and thence re-enlisting in February 1919. Made Corporal on 1 June 1921. Made Warrant Officer Class 2 in 1928, Smalldon was awarded his L.S. & G.C. in 1936, at that point a Company Sergeant-Major serving on the Staff of the Army Technical School for Boys. He was discharged on 31 January 1939. Retiring from the Army he was appointed a Departmental Clerk Grade IV in the War Department Outstation Offices in January 1940. His son was killed with the Royal Artillery in 1944 and Smalldon died at Bedford in 1966.


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£190

Starting price
£130