Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Sergeant G. Robinson, 6th Maritime Regiment, Royal Artillery, late Duke of Wellington’s Regiment

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Burma Star, clasp, Pacific; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, generally good very fine (6) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Merchant Seamen and D.E.M.S. Gunners.

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George Robinson was born at Wortley, Leeds, in August 1904 and enlisted in the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment in the summer of 1923. Posted to the 2nd Battalion in Egypt, and later still to Singapore and India, he took his discharge in January 1930 and was placed on the Army Reserve.

Following the renewal of hostilities in September 1939, he re-enlisted at Southend, Essex, and, in the fullness of time, found himself advanced to Sergeant. Moreover, as confirmed by accompanying documentation, he was an early entrant for D.E.M.S. gunnery duties - a picture postcard of the S.S. Strathnaver is inscribed on the reverse, ‘Left Glasgow March ‘41’. His Service and Pay Book also confirms his later attachment to the 6th Maritime Regiment, R.A. and the fact he passed an Oerlikon Gunnery Course.

Robinson made two trips to South America in 1943, one in the Highland Brigade and the other in the Highland Princess, and appears to have ended the War in the Bibby Line’s trooper Devonshire, aboard which ship he was present in operations off Burma and in the Pacific. He departed her for the U.K. to take his discharge in May 1945.

Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s Certified Copy of Attestation, dated 11 December 1939, three official communications confirming his 1939-45 War campaign awards and ‘Pacific’ clasp, and several ship picture postcards.