THE VICTORIA CROSS AND CAMPAIGN MEDALS AWARDED TO MAJOR GENERAL MATTHEW DIXON, ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLLERY, HAS BEEN ACQUIRED BY THE LORD ASHCROFT VICTORIA CROSS COLLECTION.
29 September 2014


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Medal entitlement of Major General Matthew Dixon,
Royal Regiment of Artillery

  • Victoria Cross
  • Companion, Order of the Bath ( CB )
  • Crimea Medal ( 1854-56 )
    • 1 clasp:
    • "Sebastopol"
  • Knight, Legion of Honour ( France )
  • Order of the Medjidieh ( Turkey )
  • Turkish Crimea Medal ( 1855-56 )

Image courtesy of the Lord Ashcroft Collection / © IWM

The Victoria Cross, Orders and campaign medals awarded to Major General Matthew Dixon, Royal Regiment of Artillery, have been acquired by the Michael Ashcroft Trust the holding institution for the Lord Ashcroft VC Collection. The group will go on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery housed in the Imperial War Museum, London.


For the award of the Victoria Cross

[ London Gazette, 24 February 1857 ], Sebastopol, Crimea, 17 April 1855, Captain Matthew Charles Dixon, Royal Regiment of Artillery.

On the 17th April 1855, about 2pm when the battery he commanded was blown up by a shell from the enemy, which burst in the Magazine, destroyed the parapets, killed and wounded ten men, disabled five guns, and covered a sixth with earth; for most gallantly re-opening fire with the remaining gun before the enemy had ceased cheering from their parapets ( on which they had mounted ) and fighting it until sunset, despite the heavy concentrated fire of the enemy’s batteries, and the ruined state of his own.

Matthew Dixon was invested with his Victoria Cross by Queen Victoria at Portsmouth, Hampshire, on the 2nd August 1858.


Matthew Dixon died at Pembury, Kent, on the 8th January 1905 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, West London

Acquisition

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Iain Stewart, 9 March 2015