A North Russia M.C. group of four awarded to Captain R. O. Jenkins, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, later Malay States Volunteer Rifles

Military Cross, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (Capt. R. O. Jenkins.) with named lid from card box of issue; Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (Richard Owen Jenkins, M.C., M.S.V.R.) extremely fine (4) £1000-1200

M.C. London Gazette 21 January 1920:

‘At a most critical period during an enemy attack, and under very heavy barrage all the Russian blockhouses were visited by him, thus encouraging the men, thereby saving a very awkward situation.’

Richard Owen Jenkins was commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in 1915, and first went overseas to the Egyptian theatre on 9 July 1916. His medal index card gives his address at Aberdovey, North Wales, and also Selaba Rubber Estate, Teluk Anson, Federation of Malay States.