A Small Collection of Awards to the 21st Lancers

Three: Private F. Jenkins, 9th Lancers, late 21st Lancers

1914 Star (6712 Pte. F. Jenkins, 9/Lrs.); British War and Victory Medals (L-6712 Pte. F. Jenkins, 9-Lrs.), minor contact wear and a little polished, otherwise generally very fine (3) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Awards to the 21st Lancers.

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Frederick Jenkins, who served in the 21st Lancers out in Egypt as a marksman in ‘D’ Squadron in 1910-13, was one of a number of regimental reservists taken on the strength of the 9th Lancers on the outbreak of hostilities, in which capacity he was embarked for France on 9 September 1914, where he may have been one of the small but resolute squadron of the regiment employed in the defence of Messines at the end of October - all in all around 1000 dismounted cavalrymen and assorted infantrymen held out for four days against odds of six to one, often being engaged in house by house fighting. Jenkins was finally discharged in May 1919; sold with copied research.

Entitled to Mons clasp