A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant C. J. Robertson, Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force), late Northumberland Yeomanry (Hussars)

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse neatly contemporarily engraved ‘Lieut. C. J. Robertson 315th (1st Nothumbrian Brigade R.F.A.(T)) 1st. Jan. 1918.’; 1914 Star, with clasp (827 Pte.C. J. Robertson. North’d. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. C. J. Robertson.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, good very fine and better (8) £900-£1,200

Dix Noonan Webb, December 2013.

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Cyril John Robertson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 9 June 1895, the son of John Robertson, Vicar of Acklington, and was educated at Charterhouse. As a Private in the Northumberland Yeomanry, he entered into the France/Flanders theatre of war with his unit on 5 October 1914, as Divisional Cavalry to the 7th Infantry Division. Commissioned Second Lieutenant into the 315 (1st Northumbrian) Brigade, Royal Field Artillery on 14 July 1915, for his services during the Great War he was awarded the Military Cross. He relinquished his commission on 30 September 1921, and died at Gosforth on 20 December 1949.

Sold with a postcard photograph of the Vicarage, Acklington; and copied research.