Lieutenant Colonel George S. Sinnott
1871-1969
Mess Dress, c. 1896
Sinnott
was gazetted to the 2nd Gloucestershire (the Bristol) Royal Engineers
as a supernumerary on September 5, 1888. He joined with his father and
grandfather’s law firm of J. Sinnott & Son in March of 1894. Sinnott
was elevated to lieutenant in 1891 and captain in 1896. For service
with the Volunteer Sections in South Africa during the Boer War, he was
granted the honorary rank of lieutenant in the regular Army in 1900.
Sinnott was made an honorary major in the 2nd Gloucestershire on May 28,
1904, becoming a permanent major in 1906. He was granted the rank of
honorary lieutenant colonel on March 20, 1908, and appointed to the 1st
South Midland Field Company, South Midland Divisional Engineers as a
supernumerary on April 1, 1908. Sinnott resigned his commission on March
13, 1912, later becoming a major in the Territorial Force Reserve in
1914. He was assigned to the Royal Defence Corps when it was formed in
1916 and retired from the service as a lieutenant colonel by the War’s
end. Sinnott continued to practice the law until 1954 when he retired
and the firm of Sinnott, Wood, & Co. was dissolved.
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Departed the collection in 2024.
