Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private G. Robinson, Middlesex Regiment and Machine Gun Corps
1914-15 Star (8066 Pte. G. Robinson. Midd’x R.); British War and Victory Medals (8066 Pte. G. Robinson. Midd’x R.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Corporal P. Waddingham, Machine Gun Corps, late South Nottinghamshire Hussars
British War and Victory Medals (2018 A. Cpl. P. Waddingham. S. Notts. Hrs.) good very fine

Pair: Private J. D. Lindop, Machine Gun Corps
British War and Victory Medals (159809 Pte. J. D. Lindop. M.G.C.) good very fine (7) £100-140

George Robinson was a bus conductor with the London General Omnibus Company before attesting for the Middlesex Regiment at Brixton on 11 February 1915. He served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion Middlesex Regiment on the Western Front from 8 June 1915, before returning home and transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He was posted back to France and served with the 197th Company, Machine Gun Corps. Wounded by shrapnel in the right arm he was invalided home where he remained until his transfer to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve on 20 March 1919.


Percy Waddingham attested for the South Nottinghamshire Hussars, which merged with Warwickshire Yeomanry to form ‘B’ Battalion of the Machine Gun Corps in April 1918, to which Waddingham transferred. The unit sailed from Alexandria on the S.S. Leasowe Castle which was torpedoed and sunk by U-51, the survivors being rescued by H.M. Sloop Lily, among other vessels. On 19 August 1918, ‘B’ Battalion was renamed 100th Battalion Machine Gun Corps. Waddingham was disembodied on 23 March 1919.

The South Nottinghamshire Hussars lost 8 Officers and 44 other ranks as a result of the sinking of the Leasowe Castle.


John Ditchfield Lindop attested for the Machine Gun Corps and transferred to Class ‘Z’ Army Reserve on 6 February 1919.