Medals & Coins, Arms & Militaria - 19th October 2016
Lot 23
The Monte Cassino casualty group of four medals to Brigadier Ivan Victor Russell Smith R.A.:...
Estimate £200 - £300 | Hammer £200
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Description
The Monte Cassino casualty group of four medals to Brigadier Ivan Victor Russell Smith R.A.: 1939-45 Star, Africa Star with 1st Army Clasp, Italy Star, Defence Medal, 1939-45 War Medal with oak leaf, in box of issue with posthumous Army Council transmission slip, medals almost as struck; together with a portrait of the recipient by Ronald Gray, watercolour drawing, dated 1947 (painted from a photograph after the recipient's death).
Twice mentioned in depatches. Royal Artillery and Commands and Staff. [Killed in action] 26th March 1944. Age 47. Son of Kenneth R. Smith and Helen Smith; husband of Laura Georgina Smith of Wilton Wiltshire. (CWGC)