A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude and 246 mm x 193

and 246 mm x 193 mm with the cardboard mounting

108 mm x 225 mm x 22

with the interior paint mostly present

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

Designed in 1888 and begun in 1892

A Long Service Medal To The Highest Ranking Native In Canadian History GTRexclude and 246 mm x 193Colonial 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"