A Collection of Medals to the Royal Army Pay Corps

A Great War M.B.E. group of five awarded to Major E. W. Dawkins, Royal Army Pay Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, M.B.E., (Military) Member’s 1st type breast badge, silver, hallmarks for London 1918; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between State and date clasps (675 Corpl: E. W. Dawkins, A.P.D. [sic]); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (675 S.Q.M. Sjt: E. W. Dawkins. A.P.C.) mounted for display, contact marks, nearly very fine (5) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Army Pay Corps.

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M.B.E. London Gazette 12 December 1919.

Ernest Walton Dawkins was born in Southampton on 24 December 1876 and attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 2 April 1895, having previously served in the Regiment’s 2nd Volunteer Battalion. He transferred to the Army Pay Corps on 30 June 1897, was promoted Corporal on 30 June 1898, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War from 19 January 1901. He was promoted Sergeant on 30 June 1903; Staff Sergeant on 30 June 1905; and Staff Quartermaster Sergeant on 30 June 1908. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 333 of 1913. Promoted Staff Sergeant Major on 9 May 1914, he was commissioned Lieutenant in the Army Pay Department on 12 February 1915, and was promoted Captain on 12 February 1918. For his services during the Great War at home he was created a Member of the Order of the British Empire. Promoted Major on 12 February 1930, he retired on 1 November 1935, and died in Salisbury on 10 December 1952.

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