WW1 Military Cross unnamed as issued, British War & Victory Medals named LIEUT E P DICKIE, WW2 1939/45 & France & Germany Stars unnamed as issued, Defence & War (mid) Medals unnamed as issued. All mounted on a bar for wear.
Edgar Primrose Dickie born in Dumfries to a father who was editor of Dumfries & Galloway Standard. He enlisted into the 1/5th Kings Own Scottish Borderers and after training was sent to Palestine in July 1917. The battalion came back in April 1918 and fought in France. He was awarded an MC LG 4th Oct 1919 - Near Gheluwe, Belguim on 14th Oct 1918, he was sent to investigate the exact situation which the mist had made obscure. He worked his way forward with two orderlies until fired on by a machine gun at short range. Rushing it, he captured it and fifteen prisoners. Afterwards he went on and found out the dispositions of our men and the enemy, thus enabling the situation to be dealt with. He has invariably shown great courage and dash.
dgar Primrose Dickie (1897-1991). Born in Dumfries, Dickie's father was the editor of the Dumfries and Galloway Standard. In WWI he was commissioned in the King's Own Scottish Borderers, serving in France and Palestine, and received the Military Cross.
After the war he entered Edinburgh University, graduating with a First Class Honours in Classics, before continuing his studies in that subject at Oxford, receiving another first. He returned to Edinburgh to achieve a brilliant BD in 1926, and then spent a year studying at Marburg and Tubingen. In 1927 he was ordained, and married Ishbel Holmes (who died in 1985). After ministering at St Cuthbert's, Lockerbie, and St Ann's Corstorphine, Edinburgh, Dickie was appointed chair of Divinity at St Andrews University in 1935. During WWII, Dickie accompanied the expeditionary forces in 1940 as general superintendent of the Kirk's Huts and Canteen Work, and landed on the beaches of Normandy with the liberation forces in 1944. In 1956, Dickie received a royal chaplaincy. He also received honorary doctorates from Edinburgh (1946), and St Andrews (1967). During his time as chair of St Andrews, he published 16 theological books and pamphlets as well as children's stories and novels. He was also a popular after-dinner speaker and event-opener. He died in 1991.
Medals all confirmed, comes with confirmation of his life.
