Description
After the battle
with fold down ear flaps bearing two wood buttons
extremely fine condition with nearly all of its original silvering still intact
and an Eastern Winter Campaign ribbon
each featuring a machine-woven national eagle with outstretched wings clutching a wreathed mobile swastika
A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History Buy Now After the battleColonial 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"