Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (24601 L. Cpl. E. Gyde, 13/Can. Inf.) - an escaped P.O.W.; British War Medal 1914-20 (24290 Cpl. T. W. Robinson, 13-Can. Inf.) good very fine (2) £120-160

Edward Gyde was born in Gloucestershire in 1880 and had previously served in the Manchester Regiment in the Second Boer War. He joined the 13th Battalion Royal Highlanders of Canada as an original member in September 1914. During the 2nd Battle of Ypres he was wounded in the back and left hip on 25 April 1915 and taken prisoner. In October/November 1917 he escaped to Holland and thence made his way to England, for which he was awarded the Military Medal (London Gazette 30 January 1920). Gyde was discharged on 5 July 1918.

Sold with a quantity of copied research including service papers, medical history, discharge certificate, and account from the Canadian War Records Historical Section of his capture, treatment as a P.O.W. and escape.

Thomas William Robinson was born in Montreal in 1882. A Collector by occupation and a member of the 5th Royal Highlanders of Canada (Canadian Militia), he attested for the 13th Battalion as an original member in September 1914. Serving overseas, he was wounded at the 2nd Battle of Ypres, April 1915; wounded again in July 1916 while in the Ypres salient; was gassed on 17 August 1917 and was wounded once more on 8 August 1918 during the successful Canadian advance at the Battle of Amiens. With a quantity of copied service papers.