British War Medal (CAPT. G.L.MALCOLM-SMITH); Victory Medal with M.I.D. Oakleaf (CAPT. G.L. MALCOLM-SMITH); Defence Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Jubilee Medal 1935; Coronation Medal 1937; Efficiency Decoration GVIR Reverse Dated 1951 with Territorial Bar and two second bar awards.
George Louis Malcolm-Smith was born in Sussex in 1894. He was sent up to the University of Edinburgh where he graduated as Medical Doctor in 1917. Having enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps he was sent to German East Africa to set up Field Hospital on 18.10.1917 and was MID for his efforts in 1919 (LG 3 Jun 1919, Page 7259)
he was Medical officer to the 7/9 Royal Scots in 1935 when he was asked by the Director of Medical Services to set up a Scottish Field Hospital to be ready for operation by 1939 - in the lead up to WWII. In the event the hospital did not move to France but Malcolm Smith went to the 13th General Hospital with the British Expeditionary Forces earning his Defence Medal and War Medal 1939-45 in the process.
He was awarded the 1937 Coronation Medal as Lt. Colonel M.B. F.R.C.P. Edin. Commanding 11th General Hospital R.A.M.C. (T.A.) and the Efficiency Decoration in 1951 - earning two clasps to the medal for later service. After the war he worked at Leith and Longmore Hospitals in Edinburgh before retiring at age 65, whereafter he continued in private practice from home. He died in 1975.
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