Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A scarce Great War D.S.C. and Lloyd’s Medal for Meritorious Service group of four awarded to Captain C. P. Dickens, Mercantile Marine

Distinguished Service Cross, G.V.R., hallmarks for London 1918, unnamed as issued; Lloyd’s Medal for Meritorious Services, 3rd type, silver (Captain Charles Philip Dickens, S.S. “Salient” 7th July 1918); British War and Mercantile Marine War Medals (C. P. Dickens.) mounted as worn in this order, good very fine (4) £1,400-£1,800

D.S.C. London Gazette 14 September 1918:
‘in recognition of zeal and devotion to duty shown in carrying on the trade of the country during the war.’

Charles Philip Dickens was born in Pill, near Bristol in 1873 and gained his Master’s Certificate on 11 September 1896. In the 1901 census he is recorded as a Boatman living in the family home in Easton-in-Gordano, Somerset, and in the 1911 census he is recorded as the Master of the 289 tonne barge Runswick in Thornaby, Yorkshire. He is recorded in the 1939 Register as a Retired Master Mariner residing in Easton-in-Gordano, and he died on 2 July 1946.