^Lot 199 1914-15 Trio to Private Peter Sinton Irish Guards who died in 1916

1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal officially named to 4712 Pte. P. Sinton Ir. Gds.Peter Sinton was born in Jedburgh, Scotland in 1891 and enlisted in the Irish Guards in February 1914. He was sent to France later that year with the 1st Battalion and was admitted to hospital in Etaples with respiratory problems which was later diagnosed as tuberculosis, which he had contracted in the trenches. He died at home in December 1915 aged 25 and was buried in Jedburgh Cemetery.