Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major A. T. S. Dickinson, 51st Sikhs, Indian Army

British War and Victory Medals (Major A. T. S. Dickinson.) good very fine (2) £60-80

Arthur Thomas Searle Dickinson was born in Petersfield, Hampshire in 1875, the son of Commander T. S. Dickinson, Royal Navy, of ‘Wyndcroft’, Petersfield. He entered the Army in February 1895 as a Second Lieutenant in the Somerset Light Infantry, and served with the 1st Battalion with the Mohmand Field Force on the North West Frontier of India in 1897 (entitled to I.G.S. with clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98). He was promoted Lieutenant in April 1898 and transferred to the Indian Army. Appointed Adjutant of the 1st Sikh Infantry he served with them in China at the Relief of Pekin (entitled to China Medal with clasp Relief of Pekin). 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 as Brigade Major, 30th Infantry Brigade, and was three times Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 5 April 1916 (x2) and 21 June 1916). He was killed in action in Mesopotamia on 22 November 1915 (also entitled to a 1914-15 Star). He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

Note: Dickinson’s India General Service Medal with clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98, and China Medal with clasp Relief of Pekin were sold in these rooms in September 2010.