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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 57

A rare Lloyd’s Medal for Services to Lloyd’s group of three awarded to Signal Master Edward Robinson, Lloyd’s Signal Station, Port Said

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (E. B. Robinson, Boy 1/Cl., H.M.S. “Orion”); Khedive’s Star 1882, unnamed; Lloyd’s Medal for Services to Lloyd’s, silver (Signal Master E. Robinson, Port Said, Egypt, Aug. 1917), this last in case of issue, pitting to pair, the last good very fine and a rare combination (3)

Ex-Fevyer Collection, DNW 2008.

Lloyd’s Medal awarded by Committee decision, 15 August 1917.

In Lloyd’s Medals Medal for Services to Lloyd’s, by George A. Brown, L.S.A.R.S.J. Feb. 1988, p.26-28, a total of 14 gold and 10 silver medals were listed. The medal was instituted in 1913 and Robinson’s award in 1917 was the first silver medal to be issued.

Edward Beyts Robinson was born on 15 February 1865 at Bedford, Bedfordshire and joined the Royal Navy as Boy 2nd Class in November 1880. Having shared in the Egypt & Sudan campaign, he was invalided in June 1890. A notation on his service record states '...wishes to remain in service of Lloyd's & employment for him will be found by the Society.'

He died at Goodmayes, Essex in May 1933.

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Estimate
£800 to £1,200

Starting price
£700