Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of seven awarded to Captain A. M. Dawson, Hampshire Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Capt. A. M. Dawson, 14th Hampshire Regt. Tower Hamlets 27.9.17’; 1914-15 Star (Lieut., Hamps. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Defence and War Medals; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., unnamed, with top bar, mounted court style for wear, good very fine and better (7) £900-1100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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M.C. London Gazette 17 December 1917; citation 23 April 1918. ‘Capt., Hamps. R.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack. When the commanding officer was reported missing he took command of the battalion and carried out his duties with great determination until relieved’.

T.D. London Gazette 3 May 1927. ‘Maj., Victoria College Contgt., Jun. Div., Officers Training Corps’.

Ambrose Middleton Dawson was first commissioned in 1911 and after serving at Reigate Grammar School, joined the Victoria College Officer’s Training Corps in 1913. Upon the outbreak of the Great War he went to the 5th Battalion Hampshire Regiment, subsequently serving in the Wessex Division Signal Company. Early in 1915 he was wounded and in 1917 was awarded the Military Cross for his brave actions in the Ypres Salient. In September 1919 he was placed in command of the Victoria College O.T.C. and was awarded the T.D. in 1927. During the early years of the Second World War he was a Bomb Disposal Officer serving with the Royal Air Force. Retiring from Victoria College in 1946, Major Dawson died in Woking on 21 April 1968. Sold with copied m.i.c., gazette extracts, and other research.