Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. Wickens, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 28 September 1917

1914-15 Star (16435 Pte. J. Wickens. R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (16435 Pte. J. Wickens. R. Berks. R.); Memorial Plaque (John Wickens) good very fine (4) £80-£120

Private John Wickens, a native of Shiplake, Oxfordshire, attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 18 May 1915. He died of wounds on 28 September 1917, having been hit while ‘he was sniping in a tree’ during the Third Battle of Ypres (accompanying note refers). He is buried at Harlebeke New British Cemetery, Belgium.