Four: Staff Sergeant A. Robson, 1st Dragoon Guards

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (4336 Pte. A. Robson. 1st. Dgn: Gds:); British War Medal 1914-20 (1DG-4336 S. Sjt. A. Bobson. 1-D. Gds.); Delhi Durbar 1911, silver (Sgt. A. Robson. K.D. Gds.) contemporarily impressed naming; together with Austria, Empire, Commander’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for Foreigners 1908, bronze (Sgt. A. Robson. K.D. Gds.) contemporarily impressed naming, edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine and a scarce combination (4) £600-£800

Algernon Robson attested for the 1st Dragoon Guards and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War, and later as a Staff Sergeant in India during the Great War. His Medal Index Card confirms that the British War Medal was his only medallic entitlement for the Great War.

Note: His Imperial Majesty Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, was appointed Colonel-in-Chief of the 1st Dragoon Guards in 1896, and to celebrate his Diamond Jubilee a small number of his Commander’s Jubilee Medal for Foreigners (in gold, silver, and bronze) were awarded to a selected number of Officers and other ranks of the Regiment in December 1908. Robson was amongst those selected from the Regiment to receive the medal, and would have worn it for six years before gravely removing it from his breast in August 1914.