BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO EVAN LUCIE- SMITH-ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT--SON OF THE POST-MASTER GENERAL OF JAMAICA-KILLED IN ACTION 25TH SEPTEMBER 1915 BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO EVAN LUCIE- SMITH-ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT--SON OF THE POST-MASTER GENERAL OF JAMAICA-KILLED IN ACTION 25TH SEPTEMBER 1915

BRONZE MEMORIAL PLAQUE TO EVAN LUCIE- SMITH-ROYAL WARWICKSHIRE REGIMENT--SON OF THE POST-MASTER GENERAL OF JAMAICA-KILLED IN ACTION 25TH SEPTEMBER 1915

Bronze Memorial Plaque. named to; EVAN LUCIE-SMITH.
Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith 1st Bn., Royal Warwickshire Regiment,was killed in action on 25th April,1915 aged 25.
The Son of John Barkly Lucie-Smith (Post-Master General of Jamiaca) and Katie Lucie-Smith, of Kingston,Jamaica.Born at St.Andrew Jamaica.He is commemorated on the Ploegstreet Memorial
The following in an extract from "Jamaica's part in the Great War"
Euan Lucie-Smith Second Lieutenant, 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment, younger son of the late John Barclay Lucie-Smith,Postmaster for Jamaica,was born in Kingston in 1889 and educated at Berkhamstead,England.He served in the Jamica Artillery Militia until the outbreak of war, when he obtained a commission as Second Lieutenent in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in December, 1914,and trained at the Isle of Wight.He went to France and was reported missing in April 1915 and has since been reported killed at Ypres, on April 25, 1915.
Application for Medals sent c/o Colonial Secretariat Kingston, Jamaica.
Sold with copied research including a photo of Lucie-Smith taken from "Jamaica's part in the Great War"
Plaque about good very fine
*Postscript*
Euan Lucie Smith is now recognised as the first Black Officer commissioned into the British Army, and the first black Officer kiiled in action.
I sold the plaque from my web-site in August 2020, the purchaser having researched Lucie -Smith, and put the Plaque into Dix Noonan Webb's Auction on 14/11/2020, where it hammered at £8,500,total of £10,540 with premium (A world record price for a single bronze memorial plaque)
It was purchased by the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers museum, Warwickshire.

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