Nine: Warrant Officer Class 1 H. Robinson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

1914 Star, with copy slip-on clasp (10062 L. Cpl., 2/K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (10062 Sjt., K.R. Rif. C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6837479 W.O.Cl.1, K.R.R.C.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Jubilee 1935 (R.S.M. H. Robinson); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (6837479 W.O. Cl. II, K.R.R.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.VI.R., 3rd issue (6837479 W.O.Cl.1, K.R.R.C.); together with a Society of Miniature Rifle Clubs Medal, rev. inscribed, ‘1931 The Army .22 Rifle Match, R.S.M. Robinson’, bronze, Great War and Long Service medal worn; others good very fine and better (10) £400-450

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 60th Rifles and King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

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Harry Robinson was born in 1892 and enlisted into the 2nd Battalion K.R.R.C. at Winchester on 24 April 1911. During the Great War he served with the B.E.F. in France, 12 August-5 December 1914 and 9 February -24 November 1915, and was then in the Balkans, 25 November 1915-17 December 1918. Postwar he served in India, October 1919-March 1929 and in Palestine, September 1936-March 1937. As a Warrant Officer Class 1 he was discharged on 23 August 1937 on reaching the age limit but re-enlisted during the Second World War. Sold with Regular Army Certificate of Service, copied photograph, research and m.i.c., the latter showing entitlement to the clasp to the 1914 Star.