Six: Colonel T. C. Ekin, 1st Battalion, London Regiment, late 3rd London Volunteer Rifle Corps and 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment

1914-15 Star (Col. T. C. Ekin. 1/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (Col. T. C. Ekin.); Jubilee 1897, silver, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Volunteer Force Long Service Medal, E.VII.R. (Lt. Col: T. C. Ekin, 3 London V.R.C.) engraved naming, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards (the 1914-15 Star substituted by a 1914 Star); the recipient’s helmet plate, this with some corrosion; and a National Reserve London silver lapel badge, contact marks to the Jubilee Medal, and area of corrosion to the Coronation Medal, otherwise very fine and better (6) £800-£1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to the Croker and Ekin Families.

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Tom Charles Ekin was born in 1860 and was first commissioned Lieutenant in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, on 21 April 1886. Transferring to the 3rd City of London Volunteer Rifle Corps, he was promoted Captain on 11 October 1890; Major on 3 July 1897; and Lieutenant-Colonel and honorary Colonel on 26 March 1902. Following the re-organisation of the Territorial Army on 1 April 1908, Ekin’s unit was re-badged and renamed as the 7th (City of London) Battalion, London Regiment. He briefly served with the 2/1st Battalion, London Regiment during the Great War in Gallipoli from September 1915. His M.I.D. is unconfirmed.

In civilian life, Ekin was a civil engineer, and was an early pioneer in electricity transmission. He died in 1944.

Sold with the following archive:
i) The recipient’s pre-Great War riband bar, cap badge, and rank insignia;
ii) Commission Document appointing Tom Charles Ekin a Lieutenant in the Volunteer forces, dated 15 April 1886;
iii) Certificate appointing Tom Charles Ekin a Member of he Institution of Civil Engineers, dated 16 February 1904, and congratulatory letter on the occasion of his 50th Anniversary as an Associate Member of the Institution, dated 27 April 1939;
iv) Certificate from the Council of Legal Education named to Tom Ekin ascertaining his fitness to be called to the Bar, dated 11 January 1899;
v) Various letters and Certificates of Appointment relating to the recipient’s appointment as an Inspector of the Local Government board;
vi) Various letters written to the recipient in his professional capacity, including those from the Home Office and the Ministry of Health;
vii) Various papers and reports relating to electrical supply in, amongst other places, South London, East Anglia, and Leicestershire;
viii) Various mathematical table books, hand-written logarithmic tables, and other formulaic calculations;
ix) A copy of the recipient’s paper ‘Water Pipe and Sewer Discharge Diagrams’, 1908;
x) Three portrait photographs of the recipient, and other ephemera.