Orders, Decorations and Medals

British War Medal 1914-20 (Col. A. E. Jenkins), very fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Cheshire and Manchester Regiments, Rifle Brigade and Royal Green Jackets formed by the late David Boniface.

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Atherton Edward Jenkins was born in August 1859 and was originally gazetted as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in January 1879, direct from the Royal Surrey Militia. Transferring to the Rifle Brigade later that year, he witnessed active service with the 4th Battalion in South Africa, gaining a brace of “mentions” from Lord Kitchener and the Queen’s Medal & 5 clasps, in addition to being given the Brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel in August 1902. Jenkins was given command of the 1st Battalion in the following year and was placed on the Retired List as a Colonel in May 1913. Recalled on the outbreak of hostilities, he went out to France as a camp commandant in 1915, but his health broke down and he was invalided home several months later - thereby earning entitlement to a 1914-15 Star trio. A gifted horseman and a very popular officer, he died at Wherwell, near Andover, Hampshire in January 1945 (see his obituary in The Rifle Brigade Chronicle, 1945, for further details).