A 1940 Fall of France Prisoner of War group of three with original ID tags and insignia to Lance-Bombardier T. Smith, 10th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, who was born some time held at Front Stalag 100 before being held at Stalg 344, Lamsdorf.
Three: 1939-45 Star; WW2 War Medal; France, Dunkirk Medal.
Condition: Extremely Fine.
Sold together with the recipient’s Royal Artillery brass o/rs cap badge; For Loyal Service buttonhole badge; circular red-brown compound fibre dog tag “775452 T SMITH CE”; “What you want to say and how to say it in German” booklet; 1942 Almanach of The Camp fold out planner, stamped Stalag VIIIB; two German Altes Haus booklets; Army Council transpssion slip for two medals; box and newspaper cuttings relating to the Dunkirk Medal; German rectangular metal P.o.W. I.D. tag for Front Stalag 100 with impressed number 7687; a rolled gold presentation pen inscribed T.R.J.S. Sept. 7th 1947, and a green painted pen-pencil.
Terrence Smith was born in London on 1 April 1909 and enlisted for service with the Royal Artillery in 1927. He served for 6 years after which he joined the Army Reserve. Recalled following the outbreak of hostilities, he embarked with the B.E.F. to France in 1940. He was taken Prisoner fo War at the Fall of France having been captured some time between 10 May 1940 and 16 June 1940. Initially he was held at Front Stalag 100 before being moved to Stalag VIIIB, later renumbered 344, Lamsdorf. Smith was later repatriated and discharged from the Army in 1944
