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Pair: Deputy Commissary General Henry Robinson, C.B., Commissariat Department
South Africa 1834-53 (Dy. Asst. Comy. Genl. H. Robinson); China 1857-60, no clasp (Ast. Comy. Genl. H. Robinson) officially impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise very fine (2) £500-600
Henry Robinson was first commissioned as Deputy Assistant Commissary General on 26 December 1846, becoming A.C.G. in January 1856, and D.C.G. in August 1868. Upon the formation of the Control Department in January 1870 he was appointed a Deputy Controller, ranking with Colonels. He was made a Companion of the Bath in 1858.
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