Auction Catalogue

23 September 2005

Starting at 11:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1189

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23 September 2005

Hammer Price:
£70

Pair: Private H. W. Dixon, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (29322 Pte., D. of Corn L.I.), with accompanying forwarding slip, in (damaged) card box of issue, extremely fine (2) £40-50

Harold Wallace Dixon was born in Barton Hill, Bristol and enlisted at Bristol. Serving with the 7th Battalion Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, he died of wounds on 26 September 1918. He was buried in the Douai British Cemetery, Cuincy, Nord, France.