Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. and Bar group to Lieutenant F. G. Ekins, Royal Irish Regiment, late Yorkshire Regiment

MILITARY CROSS, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, reverse of Cross engraved (Lieut., 1st Bn, R.I. Regt., M.C. Sep 3rd 1916. Bar Sep. 21st 1918); 1914-15 STAR (2021 Pte., York. R.); BRITISH WAR AND VICTORY MEDALS (Lieut.); Russia, CROSS OF ST. GEORGE, silver breast badge nearly extremely fine (5)

M.C., London Gazette, 1 January 1917, general citation.

Bar to M.C., London Gazette, 4 October 1919 (Egypt): ‘For gallantry and initiative during operations on the 21st September, 1918, when finding the advanced guard on the left of his battalion was held up, he, with a few men, rushed the strongly-held village of Rujib and quickly cleared it of the enemy thereby enabling his battalion to make a further advance.’

Franklin George Ekins was commissioned 2/Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, 19 September, 1915; Lieut, 1 July, 1917. Lieut. F.G. Ekins died on 27 January, 1919, the Regimental History listing him as killed in action.