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1893 April 19. Born Cheshire
1893 May 14. Baptised at Bickley, Cheshire
1901 census at Cholmondeley, Cholmondeley (He is Ernest S here)
1911 census at Bickley Malpas Cheshire (again as Earnest)
1916 Nov 30. Landed in France
1917 Jul 7. Married Sarah Ellen Graham
1917 Nov 28. Commissioned 2nd Lt
1918 May 27 Taken POW
1918 Dec . Repatriated from Germany
1919 May 28 Promoted Lt
1919 Sep 7. He serves in Murmansk, North Russia
1921 Jan 1. Relinquishes his commission as Lt in MGC
1920 Aug 13 . Joined ADRIC with service no 220. Posted to A Coy
1921 Mar 13. Struck off strength of ADRIC when appointed T/DI.3 in RIC Transport Division
WW1 BRITISH OFFICER MGC / R.W. KENT P.O.W. MURMANSK ARCHIVE A small archive appertaining to 2Lt. / Lt S.E. Sinclair R.W.Kent Regt. And Machine Gun Corps. The archive is varied and consists of Lt Sinclair’s named MGC certificate of service 1915-18. His Prisoner of War pay book headed ‘Offizier-Gefangenenlager Stralsund/Danholm with his POW number and of course name. A POW letter envelope and Red cross POW post card. 2 cheques drawn on Dutch banks dated June and October 1918. 2 Passes one from 3rd Bat R.W. Kent Regt 1917 and the other the M.G.C.1918-19. An Embarkation Clearance Certificate Murmansk dated 7 Sept. 1919 What appears to be 3 Regimental news letters on full scape paper Daily orders of the Royal Irish Constabulary Transport Division naming Lt Sinclair, dated Sept 1921. And a printed sheet of Receiving Deport Orders Grantham dated October 1919.
1922 Jan 24 Divorced
1922 Feb 22 Rejoined from Gormanstown and discharged on demobilisation of ADRIC
1922 Oct/Dec married to Florence T Tomkins
1939 Living in Holly Bank Townfield Lane , Chester R.D., Cheshire with Florence Sinclair. He is an Assistant Manager. A newspaper article shows him at the address, & an assistant manager at Grosvenor Garages
1940 Mar 14. Commissioned Lt in RASC. Lt. Samuel Ernest SINCLAIR (114875), late M.G.C
1981 Died at Poole, Dorset aged 88