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Auction: 24113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 413

Five: Driver J. Smart, Royal Field Artillery, who died as a Prisoner of War in 1916, having gone 'in the bag' at the Fall of Kut

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal (2588. C.Shg-Sth: J. Smart, R.F.A.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2588 Dvr J. Smart. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (2588 Dvr: J. Smart. R.F.A.), British War and Victory Medals (2588 Dvr. J. Smart. R.A.), contact marks, good very fine (5)

John Smart was born at 27 Mains Loan, Dundee in Scotland in 1876. Enlisting in the Royal Artillery he first served as a Shoeing Smith during the Boer War and was promoted to the rank of Driver towards the end of the campaign.

During the Great War he was attached to the 6th Poona Division of the Indian Army taking part in the Mesopotamia campaign and specifically the Siege of Kut. Taken prisoner by the Turks following the surrender of the Kut garrison, he, like so many other Prisoners of War died in captivity on 14 September 1916. Smart is buried in the Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery.

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£320

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£170