Afghanistan Medal clasp Kandahar named B/266 PTE G SMITH 66TH FOOT & Kabul to Kandahar Star named B 266 PRIVATE GEO SMITH 66TH FOOT.
George Smith born 12th Apr 1858 in Beedon, Wantage, Oxfordshire and enlisted into the army on 7th Dec 1875 aged 17 years old. He joined the 66th Foot numbered B/266 and after training was sent to India on 8th Mar 1879. For the famous Battle of Maiwand, George is noted as being in Field Reserve 1st Brigade, Colonel Daubeney so probably in A or E company who were sent to relieve the 59th Foot at Kalat-i-Ghilzia and then quickly sent to Kandahar in the march with Lord Roberts to relieve the garrison after the Battle of Maiwand. In 1981 he is shown on the Isle of Wight at the military barracks at Parkhurst. 1981 discharge to the reserves and then called back for the Egyptian campaign and renumbered 41B/341, earning himself the Egypt Medal no clasp and Star. He was then discharged in 1883.
