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Auction: 22101 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 278

Pair: Private A. M. Smedley, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment), killed in action on 7 June 1917

British War and Victory Medals, (71803 Pte. A. M. Smedley. Notts. & Derby. R.), good very fine (2)

Arthur Matthew Smedley was born at Beeston, Nottinghamshire in 1880, the son of William and Emma Smedley of Beeston, Nottinghamshire. He married Mary Anne Twiggs in July 1906 and by 1911 was living at 17 Imperial Road, Beeston and working as a lacemaker. Enlisting with the 11th (Service) Battalion, Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) Smedley served throughout the Great War. He was killed in action on 7 June 1917 whilst his Battalion was posted to Ypres with 70th Infantry Brigade; at this time 70th Brigade was involved in the Battle of Messines. Sold together with copied Commonwealth War Graves details, extracts from Soldiers Died in the Great War and the lid from the British War and Victory Medal box of issue, named to the recipient.

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