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

NIGERIA REGT)

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

a Heer Panzer NCO’s tab

with the interior paint mostly present

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"