Four: Shipwright Class 2 H. S. Smith, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (144120 Shpt. 2, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (144120 Shpt. 3, R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (144120 Divl. Carp., H.M. Coast Guard), generally very fine (4) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals for Services at Sea from the Collection of the Late Oliver Stirling Lee.

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Harry Sidney Smith was born at Kingston, Hampshire in May 1866 and entered the Royal Navy as Carpenter’s Crew in January 1888. Awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in February 1907, he was pensioned ashore in May 1911, but was recalled in the Great War and served as a Shipwright aboard the armed merchant cruiser Patia from December 1914 to November 1916 and, after time ashore at Victory II, aboard the cruiser Arrogant, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in the Dover patrol, from May 1918 until the end of the War. He was demobilised in February 1919.