Major Medley died at his home in Pant-y-Goitre House in Gwent, Wales on Monday 11th March 2013 at the age of 94. Robin was commissioned into The Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regiment in July 1939, serving with the 2nd Battalion in 1939-1940 in France and Belgium.

Volunteering for the King’s African Rifles, he served with the 1st Battalion The Northern Rhodesia Regiment from 1940-44 in Kenya, Abyssinia, Ceylon and Burma. Subsequently his army service took him to Egypt, Palestine, Greece, Hong Kong, Malaya, Gibraltar, Germany and the USA. On leaving the Army he spent eleven years with Ferranti plc before retiring to Wales. He was Chairman of The Council of the Most Venerable Order of Saint John for Gwent, a member of the Priory Chapter for Wales, a member of the Dunkirk Veterans Association and was Vice President of the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Regimental Association from October 1997 until he resigned in 2009.

He was author of two books about the Regiment, ‘Cap Badge’ and ‘Five Days to Live’. Robin and his late wife Edith ‘Pat’ celebrated their Diamond Wedding on the 20th September 2007, the same year that he was presented with the MBE by Her Majesty The Queen. He leaves a son and daughter.