Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Major F. A. Dixey, 1st (Oxford University) Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, who was a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and President of the Entomological Society of London

Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Major F. A. Dixey 1/V.B. Oxford L.I.); Volunteer Officers’ Decoration, E.VII.R., silver and silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1904, unnamed as issued, lacking integral top riband bar, mounted court-style in this order, very fine (2) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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Frederick Augustus Dixey was born at Westminster in 1855, and was educated at Highgate School and Wadham College, Oxford. He qualified as a Doctor and Surgeon (M.B. 1884, M.D. 1891, Univ. Oxfd., M.R.C.S. Eng., 1885), and subsequently became President of the Entomological Society of London, and was a world renowned Entomologist.

Dixey was appointed to be Second Lieutenant, 1st (Oxford University) Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry, on 5 March 1890. He was promoted Captain on 4 October 1890, and appointed Honorary Major on 6 March 1908. Later in the same year, on the disbandment of the Volunteer Force, he resigned his commission in the 1st (Oxford University) Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and was appointed to a commission in the Territorial Force, on the Unattached List, for service with the Oxford University contingent of the Senior Division of the Officers’ Training Corps, retaining rank and precedence. He resigned his commission on 25 October 1911, aged 56.

Dixey is recorded in the 1911 Census as a Fellow of Wadham College and was residing at 24 Museum Road, Oxford. In 1919 he is recorded as Sub-Warden of Wadham College, Oxford. He died in London on 16 January 1935, after he had been knocked down by a car in Hyde Park, after attending a meeting for which he had come from Oxford. An extensive Obituary was published by the Royal Society.

Sold with copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient in later life.