Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Company Sergeant-Major J. Smith, Army Service Corps; awarded a very early Medaille Militaire for services in 1914

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (13750 2d Corl., A.S.C.); 1914 Star (T-13750 C.S. Mjr., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (T-13750 W.O. Cl. 1, A.S.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (T-13750 C.S. Mjr., A.S.C.); France, Medaille Militaire, enamel mostly gone, some with edge bruising, generally very fine (6) £500-600

Corporal John Smith, No. 16 Company A.S.C. served in South Africa until invalided to England on 13 June 1900. As a Company Sergeant-Major with the H.Q. Divisional Train A.S.C., he entered France/Flanders on 21 August 1914 - was entitled to the clasp to the 1914 Star. For his services in the first months of the war he was mentioned in despatches (London Gazette 20 October 1914) and awarded the French Medaille Militaire (A.O.466 of 1914). With copied research.