• Victoria Cross ( copy )

• Egypt Medal ( 1882 - 1889 )
  • 2 clasps:
  • "The Nile 1884 - 1885" - "Abu Klea"
• Khedives Star

• Egypt Medal naming
  23641 GUN: A. SMITH. V.C. 1 / SO: DIV: R.A.

• Khedives Star ( unnamed )

[ London Gazette, 12 May 1885 ]. Mahdi Rebellion, Sudan, 17 January 1885, Gunner Alfred Smith, Royal Regiment of Artillery.

At the action of Abu Klea, on the 17th January last, when the enemy charged, the square fell back a short distance, leaving Lieutenant Guthrie, Royal Artillery, with his gun, in a comparatively unprotected position.

At this moment a native rushed at Lieutenant Guthrie with a spear and would in all probability have killed that officer, who had no weapon in his hand at the time ( being engaged in superintending the working of his gun ) when Gunner Smith with a gun handspike warded off the thrust, thus giving Lieutenant Guthrie time to draw his sword, and with a blow bring the assailant to his knees, but as the latter fell he made a wild thrust at the Officer with a long knife, which Gunner Smith again warded off, not however before the native had managed to inflict a wound in Lieutenant Guthrie’s thigh.

Before the Soudani could repeat the thrust Gunner Smith killed him with the handspike and thus for the time saved the life of his Officer, though the latter unfortunately died some days afterwards of his wound.

Alfred Smith was invested with his Victoria Cross by General F.C.A. Stephenson, GOC Egypt, on the 3rd August 1885