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Auction: 21103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 4
Lot: 73

Three: Private R. J. E. Sincock, Coldstream Guards, late British South Africa Police

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Mashonaland 1897 (34. Corpl. R. J. Sincock. B.S.A. Police.); Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Belfast (2738 Pte. R. J. E. Sincock, Cldstm: Gds:); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (2738 Pte. R. J. E. Sincock. Coldstream Guards.), mounted as worn, contact marks, nearly very fine (3)

Richard John Enys Sincock was born in 1875 at St Agnes, Cornwall and joined the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 6 April 1898, having already served with the British South Africa Police in Mashonaland (Medal) the previous year. His Service Records note a scar from a bullet wound through his left hand. Having purchased his discharge, he joined the Coldstream Guards and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War from 23 May 1900-6 October 1902. During the Great War he served with the India Defence Force as a Lance-Corporal (BWM only). In India he was working as an Assistant at Shalimar Paint, Colour and Varnish Co. Ltd., Goabariah, Howrah. He died in Surrey in 1935.

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