Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The Great War D.S.O. group of six miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant-Colonel E. C. S. Jervis, 6th Innskilling Dragoons and Machine Gun Corps

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902; 1914 Star, with clasp; British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted court-style as worn, minor enamel damage to reverse centre of DSO, otherwise good very fine (6) £200-£240

Provenance: Glendining’s, June 1989 (when sold alongside the recipient’s full sized medals)

D.S.O. London Gazette 18 July 1917:
‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He rendered most valuable service by his promptness in bringing machine guns into action. He invariably carried out personal reconnaissances of the situation.’

Ernest Charles Scott Jervis was born on 27 May 1876 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 9th (Militia) Battalion, Rifle Brigade, on 4 January 1896. He transferred to the Regular Army as a Second Lieutenant in the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons on 4 February 1899, and was promoted Lieutenant on 6 May 1900. He served with the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons in South Africa during the Boer War, and from 16 May 1901 to 27 September 1902 held the appointment of Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry. He was promoted Captain on 14 February 1903, and was appointed Brevet Major on 28 October 1904, before transferring to the Reserve of Officers the following year.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Jervis was recalled to the Colours, and served with the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons and later the Machine Gun Corps on the Western Front from 27 August 1914. He was promoted Major on 28 October 1916, and Lieutenant Colonel on 24 December 1917, and for his services during the Great War was Mentioned in Despatches and appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. He relinquished his commission in early 1920.