BRITISH ARMY IRAQ & WAZIRISTAN 1921-24 MEDALS TO LT COLONEL DICKINSON MADRAS PIONEERS

Description

Offered is a General Service Medal (1918) with clasp IRAQ, impressed named LIEUT. F.R.DICKINSON & India General Service Medal (1909) with clasp WAZIRISTAN 1921-24, impressed named CAPT. F.R.DICKINSON. 2 – 1 M.PRS. Comes with copies Medal Index Card, medal roll, London Gazette & seniority lists.

Lt Colonel Frederick Richard Dickinson, was born in Agra, India, on the 4^th June 1898, his father was working for the Revenue Department in India at the time. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on the 12/9/1917 and appointed to the 81^st Pioneers on the 22/12/1917 (who were in Mesopotamia at the time) before being transferred to the 20^th Horse March 1918, the 155^th Pioneers in November 1918 (who were in Mesopotamia) the 61^st Pioneers in June 1919 & the 12^th Pioneers in August 1920.

The 12^th Pioneers deployed to Iraq with the 6^th Indian Division landing in Basra 17/8/1919, it commenced to build block houses from Kut-el-Amara to Baghdad. At the completion it moved to Baquba then to Baghdad in February 1921. He transferred to the 1^st Sappers and Miners (1st King George’s Own Sappers and Miners) in March 1921, to the 10^th Pioneers June 1923 & the 2-1^st Pioneers (The 64th Pioneers was raised in 1914, re designated the 2/1st Madras Pioneers in 1922, and was disbanded in 1932) as a Company Officer where he was awarded the India GSM with clasp WAZIRISTAN 1921-24, also served with the 2^nd Pioneers then as the Adjutant then to the 3-7^th Rajput Regiment. He was transferred to the Supplementary Unemployed List 1/11/1935. Promoted to Major 1/8/1938, commissioned with the R.A.F. Reserve 21/9/1938 but served with the 7^th Rajput’s before reverting to the unemployed list with the honorary rank of Lt. Colonel 17/11/42. He retired on the 4/6/1948 and died 10/5/1957 in Croydon, England. His son Richard John Frederick Dickinson served in the R.A.F. finishing up as a Group Captain.