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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 239

(x) A rare Australian Contingent casualties Boer War Medal awarded to Farrier Sergeant G. J. Dickson, of New South Wales

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (49 Serjt:-Far: G. D. Dickson. N.S. Wales M.R.), note second initial, suspension and clasps sometime refurbished and refitted, minor edge bruising, nearly very fine

George Jennings Dickson was born at Windsor in 1884 and served with 'C' Squadron of the 3rd Battalion, New South Wales Mounted Rifles. He died of enteric fever at Standerton on 9 January 1902 and is commemorated upon a monument in Windsor Park, which also records the names of Trooper Gosper and Trooper Montgomery. It was unveiled by Sir John See on 22 November 1902, as the buglers of the 3rd Battalion sounded the last post and the 'Jack was hauled to the top of the mast.' Sold with copied research.

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