Orders, Decorations and Medals

A good Great War O.B.E., M.C. group of eight awarded to Major and Quarter Master A. E. Robinson, King’s Royal Rifle Corps

The Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) 1st type; Military Cross, G.V.R.; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek (5224 Sgt., K.R.R.C.); 1914 Star (Hon. Lt. & Q.M., K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Q.M. & Capt.); Coronation 1911; Army Long Service and Good Conduct, E.VII.R. (5224 S. Mjr., K.R.R.C.) some contact wear, generally very fine or better (8) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection formed by Peter Wardrop.

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O.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1925.

M.C. London Gazette 4 June 1917. There is no citation published in the London Gazette, however the K.R.R.C. Chronicle for 1917 gives the following recommendation: ‘Honorary Captain and Quarter Master A. E. Robinson has served with the battalion throughout the war, and has been indefatigable in his endeavours to improve the comforts of the men, and has done especially good work during the very trying weather of November through December 1916, when the battalion was in the trenches.’

Despatches four times London Gazette 22 June 1915, 15 June 1916, 4 January 1917 and 28 December 1918.

A. E. Robinson served during the Boer War at the Defence of Ladysmith and Natal, including the action at Laing’s Nek and operations in the Transvaal. In the Great War he saw service in France and Belgium from 13 August 1914 to 11 November 1918, being the only officer of the 2nd Battalion to see continuous active service in this period. In 1922 he was appointed Adjutant and Quarter Master to the Senior Officer’s School, Sheerness, where he remained until his retirement in 1926. He died at his home in Westbury-on-Trym in January 1941. Sold with further research detail extracted from his obituary, published in the Regimental Chronicle.