NAM.2001-07-453-1

Commission promoting Lyndon Howard Smith to the rank of 2/Lt, 2 Jan 1902. From three documents relating to Lt Col Lyndon Howard Smith, 1st Bn and C Coy 2nd Bn, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1901-1931. Smith served in Aden and in World War One, where he was taken Prisoner of War at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, 1915, and later served in Rangoon and Bareilly. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.

Ypres, 2nd Battle of, 1915 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)