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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 269

(x) The Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain L. C. Smith, Coldstream Guards

Military Cross, G.V.R., 'Awarded 9-10-17 Leslie Craig Smith Coldstream Guards Investiture 22-6-18' privately engraved to reverse; 1914-15 Star (2. Lieut. L. C. Smith. C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. L. C. Smith.), mounted as worn, sold together with an Inns of Court O.T.C. brass shoulder title, very fine (4)

Provenance:
Christie's, July 1990.

M.C. London Gazette 26 November 1917.

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in an attack. When in command of his company he noticed a gap between two leading companies, and reinforced on his own initiative, joining up the separated companies. Later he personally supervised the consolidation of the position under heavy fire. He set a fine example of courage.'

Leslie Craig Smith was born in November 1883 at Lewisham, Kent and enlisted into the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards in August 1915. He disembarked in France where he formed part of the 2nd Guards Brigade, and throughout his war he saw action at Loos, the Somme, Passchendaele and Cambrai. By the time Smith was awarded his M.C., he would have only just finished fighting at Passchendaele and in the November, commenced serving at Cambrai, where the 1st Battalion were involved in attacking and capturing the village Fontaine-Notre-Dame. Smith appears to have survived the war; sold with copied research.

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Estimate
£700 to £900

Starting price
£550