Background
DICKINSON, Neville Hope Campbell was born on November 11, 1862. Son of late T. W. Carr Dickinson, Fairhlome, Cheltenham.
DICKINSON, Neville Hope Campbell was born on November 11, 1862. Son of late T. W. Carr Dickinson, Fairhlome, Cheltenham.
Studied at Cheltenham College.
Lieutenant 3rd (South Regiment) Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Militia, 1881-1885. Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), 1885. Captain 1891; Major 1901.
Served with 44tli Goorkha Light Infantry, Bengal Staff Corps, in Upper Burmah Campaign, 1885-1887 (medal with clasp), and 18S7-S9 (clasp).
Station Staff Officer, Ivohima, Naga Hills, Assam. Ordnance South. Department, 1891-1893.
Doctorate.A.C.G.O., 1893-1896. Ordnance Officer 4th Class A.O. Department, 1896-1898.
Served with 1st Battn.
Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment, Royal Canadians (100th), in South African War, 1900-1901. Action of Wittebergen (Queen's medal and 4 clasps). Served with West African Frontier Force, 1st Battn.
North. Nigeria Regiment, 1901-1904.
In command Kontagora Expedition, 1902 (despatches, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, medal and clasp). Military Resident Province of Borgu, and Justice of the Peace, Northern Nigeria.
Mechanics Engineer, Construction Company, Central Uruguay Eastern Extension Railway, 1906. Companion of the Distinguished Service Order 1903.
Retired 1905.
Club: London Rowing.
Spouse 1896, Elizabeth Frankland, 2nddaughter of Isaac Garlbutt Dickinson, Woking and Newcastle.