First World War Medal Trio – Sergeant Henry Coy, 3rd Bn. Middlesex Regiment
1914-15 Star – L-11245, PTE. H. COY, MIDDX. R.
British War Medal – L-11245 SJT. H. COY. MIDD'X. R.
Victory Medal – L-11245 SJT. H. COY. MIDD'X. R.
Henry Coy was born in January 1888 at Clerkenwell, Middlesex, and resided prior to the Great War at 17 Pratt Street, Camden Town, London. Details of his parents are not stated within the service material provided. He was a native of Middlesex and entered the Army as a young man, pursuing a long period of regular service before the outbreak of the First World War.
He enlisted on 4th August 1906, aged 18, and joined the Middlesex Regiment, his attestation papers noting previous service with the 5th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment. In the early years of his service he was stationed at Mill Hill and Londonderry during 1906, before being posted overseas. Between 1908 and 1910 he served at Tidworth and Singapore, and from 1910 until 1914 he was stationed in the East Indies, including a posting at Cawnpore, gaining extensive experience of overseas and tropical service prior to the war.
At the outbreak of the Great War he remained with the Middlesex Regiment and proceeded overseas, landing in France on 18th January 1915. His discharge papers record active service as an infantryman in France during 1915, followed later the same year by service in the Balkans theatre, reflecting the regiment’s deployment beyond the Western Front. During his wartime service he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, indicating seniority and experience built up over nearly a decade of prior enlistment.
While serving overseas he contracted malaria, an illness consistent with service in the Balkan and eastern theatres, and this is specifically noted within his service record. Despite this, he continued to serve until the later stages of the war.
Sergeant Coy survived the Great War and was eventually discharged from the Army following the conclusion of his service. His long period of pre-war regular soldiering, combined with wartime service in both France and the Balkans, marks him as an experienced infantryman whose military career spanned home service, imperial garrisons, and active operations during the First World War.
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