Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Corporal S. H. Robinson, 28th (North West) Battalion, Canadian Infantry, who was wounded in August 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (887737 Cpl. S. H. Robinson,, 28/Sask. R.); British War and Victory Medals (887737 Cpl. S. H. Robinson, 28-Can. Inf.), the last worn through polishing, others very fine (3) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Awards to the Canadian Forces.

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M.M. London Gazette 3 July 1919.

Samuel Hamilton Robinson was born in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland, on 3 June 1897. A Farmer by occupation, he attested for the 188th (Saskatchewan) Battalion at Humboldt in February 1916. He arrived in England on the S.S. Olympic in October 1916 and was taken on to the strength of the 28th (North West) Battalion in France in January 1917, but was wounded in action on 21 August 1917, taking shrapnel to the head and right hand. Awarded the M.M., he was discharged at Regina in July 1919; sold with copied service papers.