Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part II)

Three: Bandsman E. Sinaco, Royal Navy

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Suakin 1884 (Musn., H.M.S. Euryalus); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., V.R., narrow suspension (Band Corpl., H.M.S. Inflexible); Khedive’s Star , 1882, surname officially corrected on the second, relatively heavy contact wear and edge bruising, thus good fine (3) £200-250

Emanuel Sinaco was born at Valetta, Malta in 1845 and entered the Royal Navy as a Domestic 3rd Class in November 1873. During his subsequent commission aboard H.M.S. Euryalus between March 1880 and June 1885, he witnessed active service in the Egypt operations of 1882 and again at Suakin in 1884, by which stage he had been appointed a Musician. Sinaco was awarded his L.S. & G.C. Medal in April 1891 while serving as a Band Corporal aboard the Inflexible, but was pesnioned ashore in the rate of Bandsman in January 1900.