Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major E. Jecks, Army Service Corps, late Imperial Yeomanry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (2/Lieut. E. Jecks. Imp. Yeo.) re-engraved naming; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (2/Lieut. E. Jecks. Imp. Yeo.) re-engraved naming; 1914-15 Star (Capt. E. Jecks. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Major E. Jecks.) mounted as worn, very fine (5) £160-200

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 January 1916.

Ethelbert Jecks served with the 13th Battalion, Middlesex Volunteer Rifle Corps, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Imperial Yeomanry on 13 April 1901. He resigned his commission on 7 August 1901 (and as such may not have been entitled to the King’s South Africa Medal), before subsequently joining the 21st (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment as Second Lieutenant on 30 March 1909. He resigned his commission on 23 October 1912. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned temporary Second Lieutenant in the Army Service Corps on 7 October 1914, and was promoted temporary Captain on 18 December 1914. Advanced to acting Major on 12 May 1917, he relinquished his commission and was granted the rank of Major on 6 February 1920.