A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude with the interior paint mostly

with the interior paint mostly present

silvered zinc (silver worn off)

108 mm x 225 mm x 22

and 246 mm x 193 mm with the cardboard mounting

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

A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude with the interior paint mostlyColonial 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"