Lot 625
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Seven: Sergeant D. Sinclair, 1st Canadian Motor Machine-Gun Brigade, Late Rifle Brigade, Queen's Sudan (Pte., 2/R. Bde.); Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Pte., Rifle Brigade); King's South Africa, two clasps (Pte., Rifle Brigade); 1914-15 Star (Sgt., Can. M.M.G. Bde.), rank corrected; British War and Victory Medals (Sjt., C.M.M.G. Bde.); Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Khartoum (Pte., Rifle Brigade), engraved naming, the first with slack suspension, contact wear, generally about very fine or better

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Seven: Sergeant D. Sinclair, 1st Canadian Motor Machine-Gun Brigade, Late Rifle Brigade, Queen's Sudan (Pte., 2/R. Bde.); Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Pte., Rifle Brigade); King's South Africa, two clasps (Pte., Rifle Brigade); 1914-15 Star (Sgt., Can. M.M.G. Bde.), rank corrected; British War and Victory Medals (Sjt., C.M.M.G. Bde.); Khedive's Sudan 1896-1908, one clasp, Khartoum (Pte., Rifle Brigade), engraved naming, the first with slack suspension, contact wear, generally about very fine or better
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Sergeant David Sinclair originally enlisted in the Rifle Brigade at Manchester in September 1894, aged 19 years. Posted with the 1st Battalion to Singapore in late 1896, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion in Malta in January 1898 and embarked for Egypt in July of the same year. Following active service in the re-conquest of the Sudan, Sinclair was posted to Crete and thence to South Africa, where he remained from October 1899 until October 1902, and participated in the Defence of Ladysmith. Returning home to the Depot Battalion, he was granted leave to reside in Canada in late 1902.

The outbreak of hostilities in August 1914 found him enlisting in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and he was swiftly granted the rank of Sergeant in the 1st Canadian Motor Machine-Gun Brigade. Landing in France in June 1915, he remained on active service until October 1916, when seriously wounded by gunshots and shrapnel in his right shoulder and hand at Moquet Farm on the Somme, injuries that necessitated his eventual discharge back in Montreal in September 1917. The gallant Sinclair died in March 1967.