Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Company Quarter-Master Sergeant F. E. W. Smith, 102nd Battalion (North British Columbia), Canadian Infantry

Military Medal, G.V.R. (703218 Sjt. F. E. W. Smith, 102/Can. Inf.); British War Medal 1914-20 (703218 C.Q.M. Sjt. F. E. W. Smith, 102-Can. Inf.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased, polished overall, thus good fine (3) £280-£340

M.M. London Gazette 13 March 1919.

Francis Edgar Wolsey Smith was born in Victoria, British Columbia in July 1876 and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in January 1916. Embarked for the U.K. he subsequently joined the 102nd Battalion Canadian Infantry in France in August 1916 and was advanced to Sergeant in February 1917. The award of his M.M. was confirmed in a Corps Order dated 4 December 1918 - among others listed as having received gallantry awards in the relevant announcement in his unit’s war diary is Lieutenant G. Lyall, who was awarded the V.C. Smith was discharged in Canada as a C.Q.M. Sergeant in June 1919, aged 42 years; sold with copied research, including service record.