Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Three: Police Constable W. Dawson, Metropolitan Police
Jubilee 1887, clasp, 1897, Metropolitan Police issue, bronze (P.C. W. Dawson, S Divn.); Coronation 1902, Metropolitan Police issue, bronze (P.C. W. Dawson, T Div.); Coronation 1911, Metropolitan Police issue (P.C. W. Dawson), occasional edge bruise, generally good very fine

Pair: Private W. A. Dawson, 1/15th Battalion, London Regiment
British War and Victory Medals (3635 Pte. W. A. Dawson, 15-Lond. R.), together with related Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (William Albert Dawson), and Buckingham Palace scroll, mounted on card, good very fine or better (6) £180-220

William Dawson joined the Metropolitan Police in December 1882, as a Police Constable in S (Hampstead) Division, afterwards transferred to T (Hammersmith) Division, and was pensioned in December 1907. Dawson then briefly rejoined (as a pensioner) for the Coronation in 1911, serving in B (Chelsea) Division.

William Albert Dawson, who was from Fulham, London, was killed in action on 22 March 1918, while serving in the 1/15th Battalion (The Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles), London Regiment. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial; sold with copied MIC entry confirming entitlement to only the British War and Victory Medals.