Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant C. J. Robertson, 1st Northumbrian Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, late Northumberland Yeomanry

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Lieut., 315th Northumbrian Brigade R.F.A. (T), 1st Jan 1918’; 1914 Star, with Mons bar(827 Pte., North’d. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal, extremely fine (8)

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Cyril John Robertson was born in 1895 and educated at Charterhouse. He enlisted in 1914 as a Private in the Northumberland Yeomanty, and was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in July 1915, subsequently serving with the 1st Northumbrian Brigade R.F.A. (T.F.).