1887 -  December 1892  

Educated at Eton
 

14 March 1892

Gazetted

, 3rd Battalion Border Regt (Militia). He was still at Eton then, only leaving in December. This route into the army via a commission in the militia (“by the back door”) was widely used at a time when the military colleges were enormously over-subscribed. Sir John French, Sir Henry Wilson and Sir Edward Spears entered the army in this way so this route was not reserved for the undistinguished.

6 - 31 August 1898

Cairo, Egypt
 

1 September 1898

back in Crete

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16 July 1896

Arrived Malta with 2nd battalion
 

4 November 1896

Gazetted

RWF

 
9 April 1897

Stationed in Crete with 2nd battalion

2 June 1894:

He was granted a regular commission as a

in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (RWF). Joined the 2nd battalion, quartered at Aldershot and later Manchester.

Left:
George Dickson
(3rd from right)
in April 1894
at home
playing croquet
with family members in

while on leave

        The content of this page is the result of investigation by George F.H. Dickson's grandsons, Richard and John Humphreys.
 
The formal record of George’ career is given by the London Gazette, “Regimental Records of the RWF” and official histories of campaigns in which he served. We have populated his page on “

” with links to all the on-line references to him that we have found. We have also found two exceptionally detailed further sources. The first is 21 scrapbooks compiled by George’s mother Harriet. These are in the RWF Museum, now at Wrexham Museum and Archives. Harriet copied a great many of George's letters home into these scrapbooks, with his photographs and her newspaper cuttings. They are a contemporary source and we have found them very reliable. The second is "Old Soldier Sahib" (OSS) by Private

(see also

), who served with the 2nd battalion RWF 1902-1909.
 
The annotated and illustrated edition of OSS, published in 2005 by Krijnen and Langley, says that Frank Richards served in C Company which was commanded by George throughout this period. Ample evidence supporting this is provided by the scrapbooks, which supplied many photographs to illustrate this edition. OSS and the scrapbooks provide accounts of the life of an officer and a private soldier as they experienced the same events from their very different points of view. The photographs on the present website come from family sources, but most of them can also be found in the scrapbooks.

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