Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman R. J. Nicklen, Royal Navy, who was tragically drowned at Yalta on 22 September 1919, when serving in H.M.S. Caradoc during the Allied Intervention in South Russia in support of anti Bolshevik White Russian Forces
British War and Victory Medals (J.45235 R. J. Nicklen. A.B. R.N.) good very fine

Pair: Private F. Simpson, Yorkshire Regiment, who died of wounds received in Italy during the Battle of the Asiago Plateau in June 1918
British War and Victory Medals (28157 Pte. F. Simpson. York. R.) nearly extremely fine (4) £80-£100

Reginald James Nicklen was born at Salisbury, Wiltshire, on 6 April 1900 and commenced naval service as Boy 2nd Class in H.M.S. Impregnable on 15 October 1915. He was advanced to Boy 1st Class, on 21 June 1916 and was posted to H.M.S. Agamemnon on 24 June 1916, then to H.M.S. Duncan, H.M.S. Victory II, and H.M.S. Caradoc, being appointed Ordinary Seaman on 20 September 1917, and Able Seaman on 27 June 1918. He was tragically drowned and ‘discharged dead’, at Yalta, South Russia, from H.M.S. Caradoc, aged 19 on 22 September 1919. He is buried in the Yalta Russian Cemetery, and is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the Haidar Pasha Memorial.

Fred Simpson was born at Thornaby-on-Tees in 1888, and was a resident of Stockton-on-Tees. He served with the 9th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment during the Great War and died of wounds in Italy, aged 30, on 27 June 1918. He is buried in Staglieno Cemetery, Genoa, Italy.