Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Skipper W. J. Watkinson, Royal Naval Reserve

1914-15 Star (W.S.A. 1398, W. J. Watkinson, Skr., R.N.R.); British War and Victory Medals (W.S.A. 1398 W. J. Watkinson. Skr. R.N.R.); Memorial Plaque (William Jenkinson Watkinson); and Memorial Scroll, mounted in a separate glazed display frames, extremely fine (4) £140-180

William Jenkinson Watkinson was born in Filey, Yorkshire, in 1868. During the Great War he skipped the steam drifter Zebulon, and was ordered to sail to the Dardanelles as part of the Royal Naval Reserve on Minesweeping duties. He returned to Portsmouth in mid-September 1915, but within two days of docking was immediately taken ill, and died of dysentery in Haslar Hospital on 28 September 1915. He is buried in St. Oswald’s Churchyard, Filey, his funeral being one of the largest ever attended in Filey.