Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Boer War D.S.O. goup of seven awarded to Major E. V. Jenkins, West Riding Regiment, who afterwards led a punitive expedition against the Kisii tribe in East Africa 1905

Distinguished Service Order, V.R., silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top ribbon bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (Lieut. E. V. Jenkins, D.S.O. W. Rid: Rgt:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. E. V. Jenkins, D.S.O. W. Rid. Rgt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, East Africa 1905, Nandi 1905-06 (Captain E. V. Jenkins. D.S.O. W. Riding Regt.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt. E. V. Jenkins. D.S.O. W. Rid: R.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. E. V. Jemkins.) mounted court-style as worn, good very fine or better (7) £2,800-£3,400

D.S.O. London Gazette 27 September 1901: ‘Edward Vaughan Jenkins, Lieutenant, West Riding Regiment. In recognition of services during the operations in South Africa.’

Edward Vaughan Jenkins was born at Lucknow on 14 October 1879, son of Lieutenant Colonel Vaughan Jenkins. He was educated at Clifton College and entered the West Riding Regiment on 20 May 1899. He served in the South African War, 1899-1902, being present at the Relief of Kimberley; in the Orange Free State, February to May 1900, including operations at Paardeberg (17 to 26 February); actions at Poplar Grove and Driefontein; in the Transvaal, east and west of Pretoria, August to 29 November 1900, including action at Rhenoster Kop; again in the Transvaal 30 November 1900 to 31 May 1902; was Railway Staff Officer (Despatches London Gazette 10 September 1901; Queen's Medal with four clasps, and King’s Medal with two clasps; Companion of the Distinguished Service Order). He was promoted to Lieutenant on 19 February 1900, and was employed with the King’s African Rifles from 22 April 1902 to 21 April 1912. He was promoted to Captain on 15 April 1904, and served in East Africa, 1905, in command of a punitive expedition which successfully dealt with a revolt of the Kisii in the Kisumu (later Nyanza) Province (Despatches London Gazette 13 March, 1908:

‘For some time the Kisii tribe had been at loggerheads with the Kavirondo, the large tribe which lies between the Victoria Nyanza and the hill country of the Lumbwa and Nandi. The Kavirondo are under regular Government control and looked to the local administration to protect them from the Kisii, who had committed many murders on the border.
As the Kisii refused to pay compensation to the Kavirondo for the murders they had committed or to acknowledge our authority His Majesty’s Commissioner decided to send a patrol into their country.
The patrol under Captain E. V. Jenkins, D.S.O., 3rd King’s African Rifles, consisted of 4 Officer; 100 rifles, 3rd Battalion, King’s African Rifles; 50 rifles, East Africa Protectorate Police; 150 Masai Levies, with one Maxim gun.
The Kisii country was entered on the 1st September, 1905, and thoroughly patrolled in all directions until the 9th October. On three occasions the Kisii attacked the patrol in force and with determination, but were beaten off with loss. The patrol accomplished its work satisfactorily with a cost of six men wounded.’

He afterwards served at Nandi, 1905-06 (Medal with two Clasps). He served in the European War as Captain and later Major in the 2nd Battalion, West Riding Regiment from 15 August 1914. He was promoted to Major on 1 September 1915, and was Assistant Embarkation Staff Officer, Southampton, from 5 February 1919. Major Jenkins married, in 1904, Evelyn Marie, eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Germon, J.P., Norfolk Regiment.