Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Captain C. C. Robinson, Royal Army Medical Corps

British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Italy, Altipiani Medal 1918, silver, with brooch bar inscribed, ‘Capitano C. C. Robinson 1/7 R.W.R.’, nearly extremely fine (3) £100-140

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 June 1919. ‘Robinson, Capt. C. C., M.B., [R.A.M.C.] attd. 1/7th Bn. R. War. R. (T.F.)’

Christian Cathcart Robinson was born in Folkestone, Kent on 19 January 1880. He studied Medicine and qualified as a Surgeon. He was employed as a Civil Medical Officer/Surgeon by the Colonial Office and was attached to the 1st Southern Nigeria Regiment, 1907-09. Whilst on service in Southern Nigeria he contracted malaria. He applied for a commission in a Kent unit of the Territorial Force in January 1916. As a Captain in the R.A.M.C. he entered France on 15 October 1917 and was later attached to the 1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment and served in Italy. During the war he suffered a re-occurence of malaria. His services on attachment were recognised by a mention in despatches. With copied service papers and correspondence, m.i.c. and gazette extract.