Victory Medal : Leading Stoker John Robb, HMAS Sydney I

Victory Medal . Impressed around edge with recipient's details.

Associated with the service of 3541 Acting Leading Stoker John Robb of the Royal Australian Navy. Robb was born in Ultimo, Sydney on 5 December 1895 and aged 18, joined the Navy on 31 December 1913 as a Stoker, 2nd Class. He joined the crew of HMAS Sydney in February 1914 and was promoted to Stoker in October. While serving in the Sydney during the First World War Robb took part in the landing of members of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force in Rabaul against German New Guinea in September 1914 and in the successful engagement with the German raider SMS Emden off the Cocos Keeling Islands in November 1914. In January 1918 he joined the crew of HMAS Encounter and, at his request, was discharged from the RAN on 9 June 1919 with the rank of Acting Leading Stoker.