A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude silvered zinc (silver worn off)

silvered zinc (silver worn off)

the majority with their original ribbons

and 246 mm x 193 mm with the cardboard mounting

with the interior paint mostly present

fraying evident at the right end of the back-facing ribbon banner under "FROM"

A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude silvered zinc (silver worn off)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"