Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel P. Dickson, Royal Artillery, wounded in the Crimea, 20 August 1855

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Balaklava, Sebastopol (Major P. Dickson. Royal Arty.) contemporarily engraved naming; France, Second Empire, Legion of Honour, Knight’s breast badge, silver, gold centre, and enamel, poincon mark to tassel at base of wreath; Ottoman Empire, Order of Medjidieh, Fifth Class breast badge, silver and enamel, no mint mark to reverse, Star and Crescent suspension detached from badge and reaffixed with additional gold ring; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, pierced with ring suspension, on original narrow riband, all with contemporary Hunt and Roskell top silver riband buckles, together with the related miniature awards mounted on a quadruple Hunt and Roskell top silver riband buckle with gold retaining pin, all housed in a fitted leather case, minor damage to Legion of Honour, very fine and better (4) £1800-2200

France, Legion of Honour, 5th Class London Gazette 4 August 1856.

Ottoman Empire, Order of the Medjidieh, Fifth Class London Gazette 2 March 1858.

Philip Dickson was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Artillery on 1 October 1847, and was promoted Lieutenant on 30 June 1848, and Captain on 20 December 1854. He served in the Crimean War and was present at the battles of Alma and Balaklava, the siege and fall of Sebastopol, in the trenches with the siege train, at the bombardments of April 1855, and the 6 and 17 June 1855, and was slightly wounded on 20 August 1855. Promoted Major, 2 November 1855, he was placed on half-pay on 15 October 1864, and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel, 10 March 1866, before retiring in 1873.