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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 579

(x) A fine M.S.M. group of nine awarded to Major (Q.M.) H. Robinson, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who was wounded at Ypres in November 1914

1914 Star, with later slide-on clasp (10062 L. Cpl. H. Robinson, 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (10062 Sjt. H. Robinson, K.R. Rif. C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6837479 W.O. Cl. I H. Robinson, K.R.R.C.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935, privately engraved, 'R.S.M. H. Robinson'; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R.6837479 W.O. Cl. II H. Robinson, K.R.R.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (6837479 W.O. Cl. I H. Robinson, K.R.R.C.), together with related Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs shooting medal, bronze, the reverse named and dated 1931, the G.V.R. period awards heavily polished, thus fine, the remainder very fine or better (10)


Harry Robinson enlisted in the King's Royal Rifle Corps at Winchester in April 1911 and went to France as a Lance-Corporal in the 2nd Battalion in August 1914. He was subsequently wounded by a gunshot in the action at Het Sas, near Ypres on 23 October 1914 and invalided home. Back in France with the 3rd Battalion by February 1915, he was advanced to Sergeant and then re-embarked for the Balkans, where he remained actively employed until the war's end.

Between the wars he served in India from October 1919 until March 1929 and in Palestine from September 1936 to March 1937 (Medal & clasp), and he was discharged at Winchester in the latter year. He had for the last seven years been R.S.M. of the 2nd Battalion.

Recalled on the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, Robinson was commissioned Lieutenant (Q.M.) in April 1940 and served at various Driving and Maintenance Schools in the U.K. for the remainder of the war. He was finally released as a Major (Q.M.) in October 1948; sold with copied career details.


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£700