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Auction: 25002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 154

An M.S.M. group of three awarded to Colour-Sergeant F. W. Smith, King's Shropshire Light Infantry

Aghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (42/558, Pte. F. W. Smith, 85th Foot); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R. (...Cr. Sgt. F. W. Smith. Shrops: L.I.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., coinage head issue (C. Sjt. F. W. Smith. K.S.L.I.), contact marks, very fine (3)

Provenance:
Purchased September 1983.

M.S.M. as per A.O. 122 of June 1933.

Frederick William Smith was born in Oxford in 1862 and had not yet reached his fifteenth birthday upon joining the 85th Foot as a Boy in October 1876. Made Bugler in July 1881, he was finally discharged as Colour-Sergeant in February 1899. With the outbreak of the Great War, he re-enlisted in October 1914 and was discharged in April 1918.

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£240