Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Chief Engine Room Artificer R. J. Tickle, Royal Navy, who served in H.M.S. Minatour at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916

1914-15 Star (270838 R. J. Tickle Act. C.E.R.A. 2 R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (270838 R. J. Tickle C.E.R.A. 2 R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (270838 R. J. Tickle. C.E.R.A. 2Cl. H.M.S. Victory) very fine (4) £100-£140

Robert Jeffrey Tickle, a coppersmith from London, was born on 23 November 1880. Enlisting in the Royal Navy on 10 November 1902, at the start of the Great War he was serving in the China Station in H.M.S. Minatour at Wei Hai Wei, which took part in the capture of the German island of Yap. After further service in East Asia and the Cape of Good Hope, she was later present at the Battle of Jutland in the second Cruiser Squadron. Promoted Chief Engine Room Artificer 2nd Class on 1 June 1916, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 14 November 1917. He was awarded a Silver War Badge (no. 44288) on 1 September 1919, before he was invalided with hypsometric astigmatism on 28 September 1919.