Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Company Quartermaster Sergeant H. Dickinson, Royal Engineers, late Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901 (26699 Sjt: H. Dickinson 107th. Coy. Imp: Yeo:); 1914-15 Star (47958 C.Q.M. Sjt. H. Dickenson [sic]. R.E.) naming double-struck in parts; British War and Victory Medals (47958 C.Q.M. Sjt. H. Dickinson. R.E.) very fine and better (4) £200-£240

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Herbert Dickinson was born in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, on 12 July 1874 and enlisted in the Imperial Yeomanry at Glasgow on 18 February 1901. He served with the 107th Company in South Africa during the Boer War from 17 March to 5 November 1901, and was discharged on 31 October 1902. Following the outbreak of the Great War he attested for the Royal Engineers at Edinburgh on 10 September 1914, and was advanced Company Quartermaster Sergeant on 1 April 1915. He served with the 77th Field Company on the Western Front from 14 July 1915, and witnessed active served at Ypres, St. Eloi, and on the Somme. He was posted to the Railway Training Depot at Longmoor, Hampshire, on 6 February 1917, and was discharged on 9 March 1920