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Old 26-05-17, 01:35 PM
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Default Major Arthur Thomas Searle Dickinson MID.

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Major Arthur Thomas Searle Dickinson MID. 51st Sikhs (Frontier Force), Indian Army, attached as Brigade Major to 30th Indian Infantry Brigade, Indian Army. Death: 22 November 1915 Killed in action at Ctesiphon Mesopotamia.Missing in action.
Son of the late Comdr. Thomas Searle Dickinson (R.N.), and Louisa Elizabeth Dickinson (nee Izat); husband of Eileen Constance Dickinson, of "Wyndcroft," Petersfield, Hants.

Commissioned in the 13th Somerset L.I. Feb.1895.
Joined the Indian Army,Oct.1899.Awarded the N.W. Frontier of India Medal with 1897-1899 clasp.
Awrded the China War Medal,(1900) with Relief of Peking, clasp.
Promoted to the rank of Major,Feb. 1913.
Went to Egypt,Oct.1914, as Brigade Major to the 30th Indian Inf.Brigade.
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Went to Mesopotamia,Mar.1915,MiD.
Took part in the battle of Nasiriyah.
Killed in Action at Ctesiphon,Nov.22nd,1915.


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