Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A fine campaign group of nine awarded to Lieutenant Colonel A. W. Dawson, Indian Medical Service, who was in medical command of the Indian hospital ship Glenart Castle during the Great War

India General Service 1854-95, 2 clasps, Lushai 1889-92, Hazara 1891 (Surgn. A. W. Dawson. I.M.S.) officially renamed; India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Chitral 1895, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Captn: A. W. Dawson, I.M.S.) officially renamed; China 1900, no clasp (Major A. W. Dawson I.M.S.); Tibet 1903-04, no clasp (Major A. Willan Dawson. I.M.S.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908, erased; 1914-15 Star (Lt. Col. A. W. Dawson. I.M.S.); British War and Victory Medals (Lt. Col. A. W. Dawson.); Delhi Durbar 1911, unnamed as issued, generally very fine (9) £700-£900

Arthur Willan Dawson ‘died at Grange Park, North London, on March 7th [1923] aged 64. He was the son of Dr. Thomas Dawson of Liverpool, born on February 11th, 1859, and was educated at Liverpool and King’s College, London. He graduated M.B. at Durham University in 1884 and M.D. in 1892, also taking the M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P.Lond. in 1886. He entered the I.M.S. as surgeon on April 1st, 1886, became lieutenant-colonel after twenty years’ service, and retired on July 19th, 1917. He spent his whole service in military employment, and for many years was medical officer of the Sappers and Miners [1st King George’s Own Sappers and Miners] stationed at Kurki. He had a long record of war service: North East Frontier of India, Chin Lushai, 1889-90, medal with clasp; North West Frontier, Hazara, 1891, clasp; Chitral, 1895, relief of Chitral, medal with clasp; Tirah, 1897-98, actions of Dargai and of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes, operations at and around Dwatoi, and operations in the Bara Valley, two clasps; China, 1900, medal; Tibet, 1903-04, medal; and North West Frontier, 1908, operations in the Mohmand country, medal. During the recent war he was in medical charge of the India hospital ship Glenart Castle, and was on board when she was in a collision on her first voyage, but had left her before she was finally sunk, with great loss of life, in the Bristol Channel.’ (Obituary in Medical News, 12 May 1923, refers)