Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

China 1900, 1 clasp, Relief of Pekin (Lieut. A. T. S. Dickinson, 1st Sikh Infy.) good very fine £500-600

Arthur Thomas Searle Dickinson was the son of Commander T. S. Dickinson, of Petersfield, Hampshire. He entered the Army in February 1895 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry. With the 1st Battalion he served in the campaign on the North West Frontier of India in 1897, with the Mohmand Field Force, and was awarded the I.G.S. medal with clasp. He was promoted to Lieutenant in April 1898 and transferred to the Indian Army. With the 1st Sikh Infantry he served in China at the relief of Rekin. In 1902 he served on the North West Frontier of India in operations against the Darwesh Khel Waziris. During the Great War he served as Major in the 51st Sikhs and was three times mentioned in despatches. Dickinson was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 22 November 1915, aged 40 years. His name is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.