Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Major S. A. Greenfield, Royal Engineers

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (862966 S. Sjt. S. A. Greenfield. R.E.); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (Lt. S. A. Greenfield. R.E.) good very fine and better (5) £100-£140

This lot is to be sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Sydney Alfred Greenfield was born in Gateshead, Co. Durham on 11 May 1904 and enlisted in the Royal Engineers as a Pioneer in April 1923. Having then served on the home establishment in the interim - and been promoted to Mechanist Staff Sergeant - he was embarked for India in November 1930, where he served in the Electrical and Mechanical Branch of the Indian Military Engineer Service at the time of the North West Frontier operations. Having then been appointed a Mechanist Quarter-Master Sergeant in May 1936, he was posted to Sierra Leone, but he was back home by the outbreak of war, and is believed to have served in the B.E.F. in France. Be that as it may, he was commissioned as a Lieutenant and Inspector of R.E. Machinery in Scottish Command in March 1941, the same year in which he was awarded his L.S. and G.C. Medal. Greenfield was subsequently promoted to Captain in March 1944 and to Major in December 1946. He died in Portsmouth, Hampshire in June 1966.