Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Ypres’ M.C. group of four awarded to Lieutenant J. E. Dixon, 8th Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, who was severely wounded near Ypres on St Valentine’s Day 1916, on which occasion he won his Military Cross

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed (Lieut. J. E. Dixon, 8th South Staffs. Regt. “The Bluff” Ypres, Feb. 14th 1916); 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. J. E. Dixon. S. Staff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. J. E. Dixon.) mounted as worn, very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400

M.C. London Gazette 30 March 1916:
‘For conspicuous gallantry. When his trench had been very heavily shelled for two hours, and he heard that the enemy were advancing on his right, he went over the parapet and crawled forward, under heavy rifle fire, to see if they were preparing for an attack on his own trench. He was badly wounded.’

James Eric Dixon was born in Burnley, Lancashire, on 23 October 1890, and enlisted for the 1st Birmingham Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 22 September 1914, aged 23 years 11 months, at which time he was a teacher at Handsworth College, Birmingham. He was appointed Lance Corporal, promoted to Corporal, and appointed Lance Sergeant, all on 19 October 1914, and discharged on appointment to a commission in the South Staffordshire Regiment on 24 November 1914. He served in France and Flanders from July 1915 until he was severely wounded near Ypres on 14 February 1916, on which occasion he won his Military Cross.

Sold with further research including copies from his correspondence file concerning his wounds.