Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Pair: Private G. Chinery, Royal Warwickshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (27257 Pte., R. War. R.) nearly extremely fine

Four: Private S. Chinnery, Suffolk Regiment

2nd Battalion Suffolk Regiment Medal (2), Regimental crest. reverse engraved, ‘Cross Country Run 1925-26, Pte. S. Chinnery’, 33mm., bronze; another, ‘Cross Country Run 1926-27, Pte. S. Chinnery, Winning Team’, both in cases of issue; Shanghai Amateur Athletic Club Medal, ‘C.C. Championship 1927, 3rd Team’, lightly and crudely engraved, ‘S. Chinery’, 28mm., bronze; Secundabad Garrison Athletic Association Medal, 38mm., bronze, lightly and crudely engraved, ‘S. Chinery’, very fine (8) £90-120

George Frederick Chinery was born in Acton, Suffolk and enlisted in Sudbury, Suffolk. Serving initially as Private 3074 in the Suffolk Regiment, he then served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. With them he was killed in action, France / Flanders, 4 May 1917, aged 22 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Arras Memorial. Note: His Army Service Number on his medals reads ‘24257’, his number as given by the C.W.G.C. is ‘271257’. Note also the variation in the spelling of the surname.

Medals to S. Chinnery sold with two silver trophy cups: the first inscribed, ‘Pte. S. Chinnery, C Coy 2nd Bn. The Suffolk Regt., Command Cross Country Championship, Gibraltar 1926 Winners’, silver, hallmarks obscured, 67 x 27mm. (approx.) plus wooden plinth, by J. Gache, Gibraltar; the second inscribed, ‘International Track and Field Meeting, Shanghai 1927, Pte. S. Chinery, “C” Coy. 2nd Bn. The Suffolk Regt., 3rd 10,000 Metres Run’, silver, Chinese stampmarks, 113 x 60mm. (approx.), plus wooden plinth, first cup dented

Sold with a framed portrait photograph of one of the recipients in uniform.