Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: The Reverend F. T. Robinson, M.A., Chaplain, Royal Navy

AFRICAGENERAL SERVICE 1902-56,1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (Revd., MA., Chaplain R.N., H.M.S. Hyacinth); NAVAL GENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-14 (Chapln. Rev., M.A., R.N., H.M.S. Hyacinth); BRITISH WAR MEDAL (Chapn., R.N.), mounted for wear, very fine (3)

The Reverend Francis T. Robinson graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1899 and took Holy Orders. He joined the Royal Navy as Chaplain on 1 August, 1906, and served in H.M. Ships Hyacinth, Warrior, Blake and Audacious. He was appointed to H.M.S. Plassy, a hospital ship, on 1 February, 1914, thence to Ganges in July, 1917, Crescent in September, 1918, and to the Royal Marine Barracks, Deal, in September, 1922. He went to the Staff of Portsmouth Dockyard in October, 1927 and retired from the Royal Navy in 1930.