Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Corporal W. G. Smith, 1/4th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, who died on 30 April 1917

1914-15 Star (4-2146 Cpl., Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2146 Cpl., Hamps. R.) mounted court style for wear; Memorial Plaque (William George Smith) fine and better (4) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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William George Smith was born in and enlisted at Basingstoke, Hampshire. As a Corporal in the Hampshire Regiment he entered the Asiatic theatre of war on 18 March 1915. Serving with the 1/4th Battalion he died in Mesopotamia on 30 April 1917. He was buried in the Haidar Pasha Cemetery, Turkey. With copied m.i.c.