Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Lance Serjt. H. H. Robinson, O. & R. Ry. Voltr. Rfls.), officially engraved naming, unit officially corrected, very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Oudh & Rohilkhand Railway Volunteer Rifles

Robinson first appears in Thacker’s Indian Directory in 1910, being listed as an Assistant Foreman in the Oudh & Rohilkhand Railway’s Locomotive Department at Lucknow. He was subsequently employed in the Foundry, and later the Blacksmith’s Shop, and is last listed in 1924. He was awarded the Indian Volunteer Force Long Service Medal in IAO 485 of 7 September 1914; sold with brief research.