Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant H. S. Sinfield, Royal Engineers, later Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry

1914 Star, with clasp (27559 Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (27559. Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. R.E.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (242. Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. Bucks: Bn: Oxf: & Bucks: L.I.); Imperial Service Medal, G.V.R., Circular issue, 2nd ‘Coronation robes’ issue (Henry Samuel Sinfield) first four mounted as worn, the last loose on original mounting pin, generally very fine and better (5) £140-£180

Henry Samuel Sinfield was mobilised for service during the Great War, serving on the Western Front with the Postal Section, Royal Engineers, from 22 August 1914. His entry in The National Roll of the Great War mentions his service during the retreat from Mons and at the Battles of the Marne, Ypres and Givenchy, before he being wounded at Loos in 1915 and invalided home. He returned to his unit in France the following year and served until the end of the war, and afterwards, in the army of occupation in Cologne. Discharged in December 1919, he then worked as a sorting clerk and Telegraphist in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, and was awarded the Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement (London Gazette 24 November 1931).

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