Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Engine Room Artificer J. R. Richardson, Royal Navy, who was killed in H.M. Submarine E-36 when in collision with H.M. Submarine E-43

1914-15 Star (M.1401, J. R. Richardson, E.R.A.3., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (M.1401 J. R. Richardson. E.R.A.2 R.N.) in named card boxes of issue with transmission letter, together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (John Reed Richardson) in original envelope with outer packet and Buckingham Palace letter, and an old Haig’s Fund Remembrance Day Poppy, extremely fine (4) £240-£280

John Reed Richardson, E.R.A. 3, Royal Navy, was killed in H.M. Submarine E-36 on 19 January 1917, when in collision with H.M. Submarine E-43 off Harwich in the North Sea. There were no survivors. He is commemorated by name on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial and on a Memorial in St Wilfrids Church, Portsmouth.