Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin

Three: Acting Sergeant E. P. Dickinson, Royal Irish Constabulary

Royal Victorian Medal, V.R., silver (Evelyn P. Dickinson, R.I.C., 27 April 1900), contemporary and very likely officially engraved naming; Visit to Ireland 1900 (A.S. (M.) E. P. Dickinson, R.I.C.); Visit to Ireland 1903 (A.S. E. P. Dickenson, R.I.C.), note surname spelling on the last, traces of repair to suspension on the first, the second somewhat polished and thus nearly very fine, the others rather better (3) £300-350

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Evelyn P. Dickinson, who was born in 1864 and originally from Devon, joined the Royal Irish Constabulary on the recommendation of P. Baudains, the Mayor of St. Helier, Jersey, in August 1886, and was allocated to County Wexford. Having then transferred to the Reserve in September 1888, when he was placed on the strength of the Mounted Force, Dickinson was advanced to Acting Sergeant (Mounted) in March 1891. And for his services in the Queen’s Mounted Escort during H.M’s visit to Ireland in 1900, he received the Royal Victorian Medal at a special investiture held at Vice Regal Lodge on 26 April, the final day of the royal visit - he and eight men received the silver award, and another 18 the bronze award, the whole direct from the Queen’s hands. In January 1902, in order to join the Imperial Yeomanry, Dickinson resigned form the R.I.C., but was re-appointed to the force - with the benefit of his former service - in February 1903, thereby ensuring his subsequent award of the Visit to Ireland Medal. Dickinson was penisoned from the Royal Irish Constabulary in May 1905; sold with related research and copied illustrations.