Casualty Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-1919 awarded Second Engineer Joseph. F. Smith, Mercantile Marine who was killed when the S.S. Highland Prince was torpedoed by the German Submarine UB-50 in the Mediterranean on 11th April 1918. He is now remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial.
Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-1919; (JOSEPH F. SMITH)
Condition: Good Very Fine
Joseph F. Smith was born in South Shields in 1868 and saw service as a Second Engineer in the Mercantile Marine during the Great War. He would be killed in the sinking of the 3390 GWT cargo ship S.S. Highland Prince on 11th April 1918 when it was sunk by a torpedo fired from the German Submarine UB-50 in the Mediterranean. 1 of 3 casualties from the incident
Remembered on the Tower Hill Memorial, he is noted as the son of the late Joseph and Elizabeth Smith and the husband of Alice Louise Smith (nee Andrewes) of 84 Devonshire Avenue, Southsea.
