VICTORY MEDAL TO ARCHIBALD SMITH-BLACK WATCH-TAKEN PRISONER OF WAR ON 09/05/1918

Victory Medal, named to:
290845 PTE.A.SMITH R.HIGHRS. (Black Watch)
Archibald Smith was born in Gorebridge in 1890.Occupation given as a Coal Miner.
He was reported missing on the 21/03/1918 (spring offensive) and confirmed as a Prisoner Of War.
He was released on 3rd December 1918.
Comes with P.O.W. details, research re a strike in 1921 in which the Police and Armed Forces were involved.
Smith died in Lochelly in 1973 aged 82.

Code: 53780