WW2 and Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal and Bar Group of Five – Musician J. Smith, Royal Marine Band

A Royal Navy LS&GC and bar medal group of five awarded to PLY.22805 Musician J. Smith, Royal Marine Band. 

WW2 Defence Medal unnamed as issued 
War Medal 1939-45 unnamed as issued 
1937 George VI Coronation Medal unnamed as issued 
1953 Elizabeth II Coronation Medal unnamed as issued 
George VI Royal Navy Long Service & Good Conduct Medal (with Bar) named to PLY.22805 J. Smith. Musn. R.M. 

The medals have some edge bruising and surface wear. Please see photos. 

Swing mounted for wear. 

Smith enlisted as a Band Boy in the Prince of Wales’s Volunteer on 11th October 1923, serving in with them for over 11 years. He transferred to the Royal Marines Plymouth Divisional Band on 3rd August 1935, as a Musician with the number PLY22805. He was awarded the LS&GC medal on 11th August 1941, probably completed time for pension in 1947, but almost immediately re-enlisted, with a new number – PLYX5443. In 1950 the Divisional Bands were amalgamated with the R.N. School of Music and he therefore got another new number, this time RMBX2831. He was awarded a Bar to his LS&GC medal on 31st August 1956. Musician Smith died on 20 April 1974.