A Collection of Medals to the Royal Naval Air Service and Armoured Car Squadrons

A group of four awarded to Serjeant E. A. Sincock, Machine Gun Corps, late 1st Dragoon Guards and Royal Naval Air Service, awarded the Russian Medal for Zeal for service with the Armoured Car Division in Russia

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4431 Pte., 1st Dgn. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (79620 Sjt., M.G.C.); Russia, Medal for Zeal, Nicholas II, small, silver, ‘St. Stanislaus’ ribbon, minor edge bruising, good very fine and better (4) £600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Naval Air Service and Armoured Car Squadrons.

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Egbert Arthur Sincock was born in Disa, Bombay Presidency. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for short service in the Dragoons of the Line at Southampton, on 23 June 1899, aged 18 years. With the 1st Dragoon Guards, he served in Australia, 11 November 1900-24 February 1901 and South Africa, 25 February 1901-14 November 1903. He was transferred to the Army Reserve in 1906 and discharged from the Reserve in 1911. With the onset of the Great War and employed at the time as a Store-keeper, he enlisted into the Royal Naval Air Service as a Petty Officer Mechanic on 14 December 1915. Serving in Russia with the Armoured Car Division, he was successively based at Kars, August-September 1916; Odessa, November-December 1916; Proskurov, Galicia, July-September 1917; Kursk, September-October 1917. On 15 October he was awarded the Russian Medal for Zeal on the St. Stanislaus ribbon. Arriving back in England in November 1917, he transferred to the M.G.C. on 18 January 1918. Sold with copied service papers.