Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Midshipman J. S. Rickcard, Royal Navy, who was killed in action aboard H.M.S. Exeter at the battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named Admiralty enclosure (Midshipman John Scott Rickcord, R.N.) good very fine (3) £140-£180

John Scott Rickcord, R.N., H.M.S. Exeter, was killed in action at the battle of the River Plate, 13 December 1939. He was buried at sea and is commemorated by name on the Plymouth Naval Memorial. He was aged 20, son of Percival Scott Rickcord and Charlotte Mary Dorothy Rickcord, of Crowthorne, Berkshire. Sold with a copy of The Cruise of H.M.S. Exeter, printed for private circulation by W. H. Smith & Son, 1940, with ink inscription ‘To Mr & Mrs Rickcord. In memory of your son John, H.M.S. Exeter, May 1938 - December 1939’.