BOER WAR, WW1 & WW2 GROUP, E.LANC.R, RFA, R.A.F, FROM ACCRINGTON, LANCS

QSA 1899-1902 With clasps for Cape Colony, Orange Free State & Transvaal, K.S.A 1901-1902 With clasps for South Africa 1901 & 1902, 1914-15 trio & WW2 Defence medal (with box of issue) To- 5594.PTE.E.SMITH.E.LANC.REGT (QSA & KSA)
88662.DVR.E.SMITH.R.F.A (1914-15 Star)
129825.PTE.2.E.SMITH.R.A.F (WW1 Pair)
Edward Smith was born in Preston in 1880 & was serving with a militia battalion of the East Lancashire regiment when he enlisted for service in 1898. He served in South Africa during the Boer war of 1899-1902 & remained in the army until taking his discharge in 1910. He married in Acrrington in 1905 & by the outbreak of WW1 he had fathered three children & was living with his wife Charlotte in Accrington. He enlisted in to the Royal Field Artillery on the outbreak of war & shave a couple of years of his date of birth & stated he was born in 1882. He first landed in France 19-5-1915 & transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 with service number 129825. He served in France 1915-1919 & was discharged in 1920. He was actually awarded the French medal militaire in 1916 but this was a clerical error as the award should of been awarded to Edward Smith of the R.A.M.C as such his award was cancelled in the London gazette 29-6-1916. The box of issue for the Defence medal is addressed to 33 Mountsteven Avenue in Walton Peterborough & may possibly of been awarded to the recipients second son who was also named Edward and was born in 1907?
VF or better with contact marks & complete with copy Boer war service papers & medal roll details, MIC details & copy RAF service papers.The group of five is confirmed as having been awarded to Edward Smith senior of Accrington. But the Defence medal may be his sons?

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