Military General Service, 11 clasps, 95th Rifles, a Waterloo man where he was wounded, his records state four times wounded during his service. Musters record a prisoner of war for a month from 10 October, 1810, the lines at Torres Vedras , joined from PoW November 1810. A unique clasp combination to the British Army

Military General Service, 11 clasps, Roleia, Vimiera , Busaco, Cuidad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, Pyrenees, St. Sebastian, Nivelle, Orthes, Toulouse.
T. Smith, 95th Foot Rifles.
A unique name on the roll. (another T. Smith shows in the musters of the time but did not survive to claim a medal, dying Tullamore , Ireland 1847).

Thomas Smith, b. St. Annes near Manchester, a cotton spinner enl. in the Artillery 1803, to 1st Bn. Rifle Brigade 1806.

His discharge papers state Disc. 1817 ‘In consequence of gun-shot wounds and rheumatism and was. wounded at the Battle of Waterloo by a musket ball, which passed across the muscles of the belly.
That his general conduct as a soldier has been good, served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo, has been four times wounded.’

The Musters record served with the 1st 95th from 1806, with the 2nd Battalion, 1808 (Roleia, Vimiera) re-appears on the 1st Btn. muster rolls  from Sept. 1809, missing 10. October, 1810. At that time the 95th. were engaged in skirmishing in front of the defensive lines of Torres Vedras.

From ‘Rifle Green in the Peninsula’ Footnote 3

‘Of all the additions received into the Rifle Company of the detachments, the most interesting is Rifleman Thomas Smith. Smith originally went off with the 2nd Battalion under Moore, for the Corunna Campaign. At some point he was detached from the battalion or left behind when they sailed from Vigo. (musters show missing fron 2 November) He eventually made his way back to Lisbon to team up with the remains of the 95th in  the Rifle Company of the detachments, Smith received the MGS medal in 1848 and though he was in action at the battle of Talavera he was not issued with the clasp. What adventures he had on his journey through hostile country and finally reaching Lisbon we will never know.’

The same book p.227 .Talavera.  ‘R’man Thomas Smith, on detachment list for Talavera , entitled’ also ‘Claimed the clasp but was disallowed despite being present.’

The 1851 Census records Thomas Smith ‘Pensioner of the Rifle Brigade

Died 1852, Manchester