Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Petty Officer and Gunnery Instructor A. J. J. Richardson, Royal Navy, who was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1915 and later served on the staff of the Principal Naval Transport Officer at Archangel with the North Russia Expeditionary Force

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (A. J. J. Richardson. P.O. 1 Cl. H.M.S. Highflyer.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. J. J. Richardson. R.N.V.R.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (A. J. J. Richardson. P.O. 1 Cl., H.M.S. Highflyer.) contact marks, generally very fine, the Great War awards better (4) £240-£280

Archibald John Jenkins Richardson was born on 7 July 1870, at Stoke Damerel, Devon. He commenced naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Lion, on 7 September 1885. He was appointed Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Royal Adelaide, on 7 July 1888, and was advanced to Able Seaman, on 13 February 1890. He is confirmed on the Medal Roll for the Africa General Service Medal with clasp for Somaliland 1902-04, for service in H.M.S. Highflyer, as Petty Officer First Class, No. 134739, the medal being sent to H.M.S. Impregnable, in April 1905, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1903. He was promoted Chief Petty Officer, H.M.S. Impregnable in April 1905, and was pensioned in July 1910, from H.M.S. Vivid.

As a Pensioned Chief Petty Officer and Gunnery Instructor, in H.M.S. Powerful, Richardson was commissioned Temporary Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, for service with the Royal Naval Division, on 15 November 1915. He had service at Royal Naval Depot, Crystal Palace, and was promoted Temporary Lieutenant on 24 August 1917. He was later appointed to be 3rd Grade Transport Officer for duty on the staff of the Principal Naval Transport Officer (P.N.T.O.) with the North Russia Expeditionary Force at Archangel, and was demobilised in February 1920. He remains listed in the August 1939 Navy List as Retired Lieutenant, R.N.V.R., with seniority from 24 August 1917.