THE MILITARY MEDAL AWARDED TO CORPORAL – LANCE SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER SMITH, 8TH BATTALION R

THE MILITARY MEDAL AWARDED TO CORPORAL – LANCE SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER SMITH, 8TH BATTALION ROYAL BERKSHIRE REGIMENT, WHO SUCCUMBED TO HIS WOUNDS ON THE DAY AFTER THE END OF WW1, 12TH NOVEMBER 1918. Military Medal George V (44670 Corporal – Lance Sergeant, 8th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment). Attractively toned, Extremely Fine.

Christopher Smith was born in Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia. He enlisted at Warwick, and originally saw service as 209698 with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, later transferring to the 8th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment, with whom he won the Military Medal. Private Smith died of wounds on 12th November 1918. He was possibly a casualty of the last action fought by the 8th Berkshires during WW1, the battle of Mormal Forest, 4/11/1918. Lance Sergeant Smith’s Military Medal was announced in the London Gazette of 13/3/1919, and given the date of the announcement, it may well have been awarded for the action during which he was fatally wounded. London Gazette gives home town as Bourneville.