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26 January 2022

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№ 546

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26 January 2022

Hammer Price:
£130

Victory Medal 1914-19 (4) (Capt. H. G. Robinson; Lieut C. Garred; 2. Lieut. D. H. Fenner R.A.F.; Major A. G. Gibson) generally very fine (4) £70-£90

Harold Godfrey Robinson was born in Clevedon, Somerset, on 27 October 1886, and was commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant in May 1907, being promoted Lieutenant in October 1909. He was serving on the Northwest Frontier with the 2nd Battalion in 1914, and by 1917 was serving with the 1st Battalion on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 12 June 1917 and is buried in the Railway Dugouts Burial Ground, France.

Claude Garred was born on 23 April 1890 and at age 18 attested for the Royal Garrison Artillery. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 July 1915 before being commissioned Second Lieutenant on 21 December 1916, and was promoted to Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 21 June 1918.

David Horace Fenner joined the Royal Flying Corps as 7225 Airman, Second Class before receiving his commission as Second Lieutenant, and joined the Royal Air Force upon its formation on 1 April 1918.

Two Majors with the name A. G. Gibson are noted as serving during the Great War, in the Army Service Corps and Royal Army Medical Corps respectively.