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VC687 John Alexander Sinton
BORN 2 December 1884
DIED 25 March 1956 AGE 71
VC Won 21 January 1916 AGE 31
Place VC Won Orah Ruins, Mesopotamia, now Iraq
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name John Alexander Sinton No.
VC Issue No. 687 Awards VC OBE
Regiment Indian Medical Service
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Captain
Rank End Of Career Brigadier
Place Of Birth Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Place Of Death At his home, 'Slaghtfreedan Lodge', near Lough Fea, Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Buried/Location Ashes Claggan Presbyterian Churchyard, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 28 March 1956
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 21 June 1916
VC Presented 31 January 1918 by Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India at Red Fort, New Delhi, India
Memorials
P Headstone, Claggan Presbyterian Churchyard, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Sinton Hall at Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sinton Court, near Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Ward named after him at Musgrave Park Military Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
P Named on Memorial Gates, Constitution Hill, London
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Plaque, British High Commission, 80 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
By The Way…
John Sinton was one of the worlds leading experts on malaria, also having the distinction of having three species of mosquito named after him
VC Held By
Royal Army Medical Corps Museum, Keogh Barracks, Mytchett Place Road, Ash Vale, Aldershot, Hampshire, England
Thank you to Andrew Stuart for the headstone photos
