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Auction: 17001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 225

Five: Paymaster Lieutenant J. T. Sinclair, Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Naval General Service 1915-62, one clasp, S.E. Asia 1945-46 (Lieut. (S.) J. T. Sinclair, R.N.V.R.), good very fine (5)

Jack Temple Sinclair was born in Portsmouth in 1909, the son of Harry Sinclair, the Managing Director of the Port of Portsmouth Floating Bridge Company.

Commissioned in the acting rank of Paymaster Sub. Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (R.N.V.R.) in May 1943, he first went overseas when appointed to H.M.S. Amesbury, the R.N. element of the U.S. naval base at Rhode Island, used by Fleet Air Arm squadrons for training purposes.

Confirmed in his rank in November 1943, Sinclair was embarked for Ceylon in early 1945, where he served at the shore establishment Lanka until October 1945. In the same month, on being given the temporary rank of Lieutenant (S.), he was appointed to Sultan, the R.N's base in Malaysia, for services in Batavia. The capital of the Dutch East Indies, the city had been under Japanese occupation from March 1942 until August 1945, and was already a centre of terrorist activity for the Indonesian Independence Movement.

Sinclair was finally released from the R.N.V.R. in May 1947 and died in Brighton, Sussex in 1956; sold with copied research.



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Estimate
£200 to £250