A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude NIGERIA REGT)

NIGERIA REGT)

108 mm x 225 mm x 22

the reverse exterior with a maker’s mark of “JULIUS MAURER

and 246 mm x 193 mm with the cardboard mounting

Designed in 1888 and begun in 1892

A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude NIGERIA REGT)Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service Medal, Major (Later Brigadier) Oliver M. Martin, Haldimand Rifles, Canada's Highest Ranking Aboriginal Soldier and the First Native Appointed to the Judiciary in Ontario; (MAJOR O. M. MARTIN HALD. RIF.). Naming is officially impressed. Very dark patina, light contact, near extremely fine. Footnote: Oliver Milton Martin was born on April 9, 1893, on Ohsweken, Ontario, the son of Robert Martin and Lucinda "Lucy"