Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family group:

A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Bombardier G. H. Dick, Royal Field Artillery

Military Medal, G.V.R. (48193 Bmbr., A.103 Bde. R.F.A.); 1914-15 Star (48193 A. Bmbr., R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (48193 A-Bmbr., R.A.)

Three: Able Seaman A. Dick, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1914-15 Star (K.P.-961 A.B., R.N.V.R.); British War and Victory Medals (K.P.961 A.B., R.N.V.R.) good very fine (7) £380-420

M.M. London Gazette 18 June 1917.

George Henry Dick was born in St. George’s, Manchester and enlisted at Holloway, London. With the R.F.A. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 25 August 1915. Serving as a Bombardier with “A” Battery, 103rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, he died of wounds on 23 April 1917. He was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. He was the son of Mary Ann Dick of 8 Worsley Street, Oldham Road, Manchester.

Alfred Dick was born in Manchester on 16 September 1887. Employed as a Miner and living at Wilton Gilbert, Co. Durham, he enlisted into the Hawke Battalion, R.N.V.R. on 10 September 1914. Posted to the Dardanelles, he was invalided first to Cairo, then to England with eye problems. He was discharged in 1916.