Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Able Seaman J. J. Dickinson, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, killed whilst serving in the Hawke Battalion in February 1917

1914-15 Star (T.Z.-1489 J. Dickinson, A.B., R.N.V.R.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (T.Z. 1489 J. Dickinson. A.B. R.N.V.R.) together with a British War Medal renamed as the last, good very fine (3) £100-£140

Joseph James Dickinson was killed in action on 4 February 1917, during an assault on German trenches north of Grandcourt in the Ancre River Valley. He was aged 26, husband of Dorothy-Ann Dickinson of Choppington, Northumberland, a miner by trade. He enlisted on 10 November 1914, and joined the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Hawke Battalion (Gallipoli), 9 March 1915; wounded 15-16 June 1915, invalided to England 15 August 1915; joined Hawke Battalion in France, 29 February 1916. Able Seaman Dickinson has no known grave and is commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial.