A Taunton Somerset / Architect interest Second World War & Indian Independence medal group of 3: Major Stuart Henry Sprankling, Royal Engineers

- Defence Medal
- War Medal
- India (Dominion): Independence Medal 1947 (Major S. H. Sprankling. R.E.)

Sold together with:

- Original named card box of issue for the India Independence Medal

All 3 x medals sold fitted with their original bright clean silk ribands as issued

Leslie Radcliffe Wynne was first commissioned into the British Indian Army on 5 October 1940, at which time he was granted an Indian Emergency Commission (IEC -36) and the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. Subsequent promotions were War Substantive Lieutenant 5 April 1942; Acting Captain to 21 August 1942; Temporary Captain 22 November 1942;  The Indian Army List for October 1946, records Leslie as holding the appointment of War Substantive Lieutenant & Acting Major, with effect from 5 October 1940

Stuart Henry Sprankling, son of Ernest Spranling (a Licentiate of the Royal Institute of British Architects L.R.I.B.A. on 19 December 1910.) a Member of the Institute of Registered Architects, was granted an emergency commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 20 March 1942, and was promoted temporary Captain on 20 January 1944. Appointed Staff Officer, Royal Engineers, 3rd Grade (SORE3), Directorate of Works, Engineer-in-Chief's Branch, HQ Staff of the Army in India, on 4 September 1944, he relinquished his commission on 16 December 1953, and was granted the honorary rank of Major

Leslie Radcliffe Wynne son of Milton Hope Wynne (an Assistant Sation Master residnig at Kalyan, India in August 1914) and Mabel Merle Wynne (nee Walker) was born in Jhansi, British India on, 24 April 1914, and was baptized, at Byculla, Bombay in August 1914. Leslie married Edith Mary Peters at the Indian Hill Station of Mussoorie on, 1940. He was granted an Indian Emergency Commission on 5 April 1940, and posted to the Royal Indian Army Service Corps, He served in British India 1940-1945, for which services he was awarded with a War Medal and India Service Medal. Post-independence he initially remained in the land of his birth, and continued serve with the Indian Army. By the 1960's, together with his family, he had relocated to the United Kingdom, and is recorded as becoming a naturalized British Citizen on 13 June 1966 (Home Office Reference W83300). Leslie Radcliffe Wynne is registered to have died at Birkenhead, Cheshire, England sometime during the second quarter of 1999 

See item code 25924 for the fathers Special Constabulary Medal

Condition: EF

Code: 25962