Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Serjeant T. Brindley, Royal Engineers, late Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire Regiment

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Tirah 1897-98, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (4411- Lce Corpl, 2 Derby. Regt.) clasps mounted in that order; part renamed in a later style; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (4411 Corpl., Notts. & Derby. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (7192 Sjt., Notts. & Derby. R.); British War and Victory Medals (7192 Sjt., Notts. & Derby. R.) edge bruising, contact mark, nearly very fine (5) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A fine Collection of Medals to the Sherwood Foresters.

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Thomas Brindley was born in Pleasley, Mansfield in 1876. A former Deputy at the Pleasley Colliery and Stanton Iron Works, he attested for the Notts. & Derby. Regiment on 14 September 1914, aged 38 years. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 28 August 1915. Promoted to Acting Serjeant in October 1914 and was confirmed in that rank in January 1915. Reduced to the ranks in December 1915 ‘for inefficiency’. Transferred from the 11th Battalion to 181 Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers on 27 March 1918. Discharged on medical grounds on 31 July 1918. With copied research.