A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude 108 mm x 225 mm

108 mm x 225 mm x 22

at the age of 35 (or 34

Designed in 1888 and begun in 1892

silvered zinc (silver worn off)

with the interior paint mostly present

A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude 108 mm x 225 mmColonial 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"