Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private G. Dawson, Lincolnshire Regiment and Kolar Gold Field Volunteers

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (2992 Pte. G. Dawson. 1/Lin. R.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (2992 Pte. G. Dawson 1st. Linc. R.) contemporarily engraved naming; together with two silver Kolar Gold Field Volunteers’ Medals; seven Shooting Medals, the majority named to the recipient; a silver Kolar Gold Field Mine Rescue Service Medal; and three Kolar Gold Fields uniform buttons, edge bruising to the Khedive’s Sudan Medal, very fine and better (lot) £300-£400

George Dawson was born in 1874 at Norwich and was already serving with the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, when he attested for the Lincolnshire Regiment at Lincoln on 21st January 1892. He served at the Depot until he was transferred to the 1st Battalion on 13 April 1892, sailing with them for Malta on 1 February 1895 and remaining there until February 1897 at which he time he proceeded with his Battalion to Egypt. He participated in the Atbara Campaign and the Expedition to Khartoum in 1898 before his Battalion sailed for Bangalore, India in October of that year where, in 1901 he extended his service to complete 12 years with the Colours. In 1902 he married a Miss Joyce Henderson at St. John’s, Bangalore and then later the same year his Battalion was posted to Secuderabad, where he remained stationed until he was discharged on 15 February 1904 on termination of his period of engagement, with permission to reside in India. He subsequently joined the Kolar Gold Field Volunteers, Auxiliary Force India.