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A 'Wounded at Loos' campaign & long service medal group of 5: Sergeant Henry Samuel Sinfield, Postal Section Royal Engineers, late Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry A 'Wounded at Loos' campaign & long service medal group of 5: Sergeant Henry Samuel Sinfield, Postal Section Royal Engineers, late Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry A 'Wounded at Loos' campaign & long service medal group of 5: Sergeant Henry Samuel Sinfield, Postal Section Royal Engineers, late Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry A 'Wounded at Loos' campaign & long service medal group of 5: Sergeant Henry Samuel Sinfield, Postal Section Royal Engineers, late Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry A 'Wounded at Loos' campaign & long service medal group of 5: Sergeant Henry Samuel Sinfield, Postal Section Royal Engineers, late Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry

A 'Wounded at Loos' campaign & long service medal group of 5: Sergeant Henry Samuel Sinfield, Postal Section Royal Engineers, late Buckinghamshire Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light infantry

- 1914 Star, with clasp (27559 Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. R.E.)
- British War Medal Silver issue (27559. Sjt. H. S. Sinfield. R.E.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (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)

Medal verification: All medals and clasp verified as entitled per the below following cited sources:

- 1914 Star. With dated clasp: Ref WO 329/2416 (Medal Roll of Postal Section Royal Engineers)
- British War Medal. Silver issue: Ref WO 329/577
- Interallied Victory Medal: Ref WO 329/577
- TFEM: Army Order No. 205 of 1 July 1912
- Imperial Service Medal: Published in Lonndon Gazette issue of 24 November 1931 (Sorting Clerk, and Telegraphist, Bletchley)

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)

The first 4 x medals mounted as-worn in the swing style, and as-worn by the recipient. The medals suspended by their original silk ribands from a mounting bar that retains its long hinged pin & clasp fittings

Sold together with some hard-copy research

Condition: Mostly GVF

Code: 22755