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Sgt. Alfred Sanders
British Army 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Longton
My relative was Alfred Sanders. He was born in 1895 in Longton, Stoke on Trent. He joined the colours in 1914 and the census records states he lived in Heaths Passage. He joined the 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. On July 3rd he went over the top under the command of Major Cecil Wedgwood. Wedgwood and many others died. Alfred survived the Somme Campaign then on the last day, 18th November, took part in an attack against Grandcourt. There was a blizzard and bitter fighting took place. 173 men from Stoke were killed. Alfred was presumed dead. Then in March 1917, he appeared in the archives as being a prisoner of war in German hands. I have found the German records stating which camps he was in and his medal index card shows he returned home in 1919. He died in 1951 and is buried in Longton Cemetery.
His older cousin born in 1892 was my great great grandad and also called Alfred Sanders. He served with the 7th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment in Gallipoli and was wounded in July 1916. He went on to the 1st South Staffs Regiment and served at Ypres in 1917 when he was discharged for being wounded in October 1917.
PO. Jesse Sanders
Royal Navy HMS Marmion
from:Devonport
(d.21st Oct 1917)
Jesse Sanders joined the Navy on 9th August 1901 and served for 16 years. He was a cooper by trade and was just over 5 feet tall. He served on many ships including the Agincourt, Barrosa, Royal Arthur, and the Marmion.
It was while he was on the Marmion that the ship was accidentally rammed by HMS Tirade on 21st of October 1917 off the Shetland Islands in reportedly atrocious weather whilst the two vessels were escorting a convoy across the North Sea. HMS Tirade apparently suffered little damage, but Marmion sank. Local newspapers in Lerwick later (in 1919) reported it as a collision between an outbound and an inbound convoy in darkness and bad weather, with both convoys initially thinking that they were being attacked by the enemy when the two ships collided.
Sadly Jesse lost his life in the collision, and his body was never recovered. He left behind his wife and three young children.
Pte. John Sanders
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham,
(d.19th Dec 1914)
John Sanders served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment during WW1 and was killed in action on the 19th December 1914, aged 43. He is commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing in Belgium. He was the husband of Nellie Hughes (formerly Sanders), of 2 Back 65 Great Russell St. Birmingham.
Pte. John Conrad Sanders
British Army 4th Btn. Devonshire Regiment
from:Exeter
My father Jack Sanders always said that he was first sent to the Andaman Islands. He had enlisted at the start of the war aged 15 1/2 (his date of birth was 23rd of January 1899) but as he was a big lad no proof was apparently asked for. His true age came to light when he was at sea and of course they did not send him home.
I cannot find any record of Devonshires being sent to these islands, which I believe were used as prisons. Jack then went to Mesoptamia to fight the Turks, and told tales of bivouaking in the desert. He also mentioned Palestine, again, the records do not indicate this but I wonder if some volunteers went to Palestine from Mesopotamia?
Pte. Reginald Thomas Sanders
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Newcastle-under-Lyme
On 22nd of August 1914 my grandfather, Reginald Sanders, aged 19, volunteered for service in the armed forces.Ć¢ā‚¬Ā¸ He was recruited in Stoke on Trent and then travelled to Hounslow where he joined the 8th (Service) Battalion, Royal Fusiliers which was part of Kitchener's First New Army.
For the next nine months he was in training at various camps in England and on the morning of 31st May 1915 he left Aldershot and at 10.30pm the same day he landed in Boulogne, France. On 12th June he went into the trenches for the first time near Armentieres. For the next 22 months, except for a home furlough in October 1916, he was in the trenches in the Aisne, Nord and Pas-de-Calais Departments of France.
On 29th April 1917 at Feuchy he suffered a wound to his right hip whilst returning from a working party and on 4th May 1917 he was transferred to Edmonton Hospital in England. I don't know how long he was in hospital but he was granted a furlough from the 12th to 21st June 1917.
He was then sent to Shoreham in July 1917 and on 8th September 1917 he left for France and joined the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers near Arras. Excepting for a spell at 3rd Army Infantry School in Auxi-le-Chateau he was in the trenches until, on 27th March 1918, he was again wounded in action, this time a gunshot wound to the head. On 6th April 1918 he was transferred to Epsom Hospital. I don't know how long he was in hospital for but he was granted a furlough to visit his family in Newcastle under Lyme from 17th to 26th July.
On 29th July 1918 he was posted to the 5th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers at Dover where he stayed until 22nd September when he took a trade test at Woolwich Arsenal and he subsequently transferred to the Royal Engineers. He spent the rest of the war mainly in Hampshire and was demobbed on 31st March 1919 in Halifax.
Pte Samuel Sanders
British Army 13th Coy. Machine Gun Corps
from:Justment, Brandis Corner, Devon
(d.27th Jul 1917)
Pte. Thomas Sanders
British Army 1st/4th Btn. Kings Own Scottish Borderers
from:St Helens, Lancashire
(d.7th Dec 1917)
A/Sjt Walter Sanders
Army 11th Horse Transport Coy. Army Service Corps
from:Grimsby
(d.22nd Nov 1916)
Walter had previously served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and died in Malta.
Lt. William Edward Sanders VC, DSO
HMS Prize
from:New Zealand
(d.14 August 1917)
Lt.Cmdr. William Edward Sanders VC DSO.
Royal Navy HMS Prize Royal Naval Reserve
from:New Zealand
(d.14th Aug 1917)
Lieutenant Commander William Edward Sanders VC DSO served in the Royal Naval Reserve during WW1. He was killed in action on the 14th August 1917, age 34 and is commemorated on the Plymouth Naval Memorial in Plymouth. He was the son of Edward Helman Cooke Sanders and Emma Jane Sanders, of Russell, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. William held the Extra Master's Certificate (Mercantile Marine).
An extract from the London Gazette, No. 30147, dated 22nd June, 1917, records the following:- "In recognition of his conspicuous gallantry, consummate coolness, and skill in command of one of HM ships in action."
Pte. Anthony Sanderson
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.15th Mar 1915)
Anthony Sanderson died of wounds and is buried at Loker Churchyard
Pte. Arthur Gilbert Sanderson
British Army 2/7th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Wood Green, London
My grandfather, Arthur Sanderson born 8th May 1898, joined the Middlesex Regiment in 1915 and was assigned to 2/7th Battalion. He disembarked on 1st of September 1915 and fought in WW1 in France, Flanders, Egypt and Italy. He joined up as soon as he was 17 and survived the war without injury.
After serving with 2/7th Battalion he was moved to 1/7th Battalion and then to 23rd Battalion. He was disembodied on Demobilisation on 21st of April 1919 and was awarded 3 medals, 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Allied Victory Medal, collectively known as Pip, Squeak & Wilfred.
He married Evelyn Jessie Sarah Bolter on 6th of September 1924 and they had a son. Arthur served as a Warden for the Borough of Southgate in WWII. He died in September 1993, aged 95.
Pte. Ernest Sanderson
British Army 5th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.26th October 1917)
My colleague was presented with the Passchendale commemorative poppy for Ernest Sanderson and I'm trying to find out more about him. He was from Bolton and has no known grave, but is remembered on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium.
Pte. Gervase Greenwell Sanderson
British Army 9th Btn B Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:Redcar
Pte. James Sanderson
British Army 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:South Moor, Durham
(d.21st Sep 1917)
Sgt. James Johnson Sanderson
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. James H. Sanderson
British Army 7th Btn. Queens Royal West Surrey Regt.
from:Smithfield, London
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. James H. Sanderson enlisted on 03.09.14, he was posted to the 7th Btn. "The Queens" Royal West Surrey Regt.
James was killed on the 1st July 1916 during the opening attacks of the Somme offensive.
He is buried in Danzig Alley CWWGC and commemorated on the parish War Memorial outside St Bartholomew the Great Church in Smithfield.
Gnr. John Stoker Sanderson
British Army 92nd Brigade, "C" Battery Royal field Artillery
from:Jarrow
(d.3rd Dec 1917)
John Sanderson died aged 30. Born in Jarrow in 1887 he was the husband of Ann Sanderson (nee Turner) of 47 Charles Street Jarrow. John is buried in Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church, Jarrow.
Sgt. John Albert Sanderson
British Army 9th Btn. York and Lancaster Regiment
from:Rawmarsh
(d.14th Oct 1917)
Pte. Joseph Sanderson
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.19th Feb 1915)
ERA. Robert Sanderson
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Bayano
(d.11th Mar 1915)
Robert Sanderson died aged 28 in the sinking of HMS Bayano. Born in Jarrow in 1886, he was the husband of Alice Sanderson (nee Carney) of 202 South Palmerston Street South Shields Robert is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Sam Sanderson
British Army 6th Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
(d.6th Apr 1917)
Sam Sanderson 6th Btn Leicestershires is buried at Boyelles Com-munal Cemetery Extension, he died on the 6th of April 1917 Sam (b. 1887) was the son of Mr John and Mrs Ann Elizabeth Sanderson (nee Justice) of Spital Hill. John was employed as a house joiner. The 1911 Census gives the family address as 19 Wellington Street Retford. Sam was in employment at the Rubber works working as a spreader. In 1914 Sam married Annie A Stead. The famiky was added to in 1915 with the birth of John E Sanderson.
Dvr. William Sanderson
British Army 251st Brigade, D Battery Royal Field Artillery
(d.5th May 1917)
William Sanderson died age 26, he was born Jarrow 1891, son of Robert and Elizabeth Sanderson of Jarrow. In the 1911 Census, William Sanderson, age 20, a Fitter's Labourer, lives with his parents Robert & Elizabeth Sanderson at 46, Dee Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne. He was the husband of Rhoda Sanderson (nee Roberts) of 58 William Street Hebburn. He enlisted in Hebburn
William is buried in Avesnes-Le-Comte Communal Cemetery Extension and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Capt. Flora Sandes
Serbian Army
from:Suffolk,
Flora Sandes was the only British woman to officially serve as a soldier in the trenches during World War I. How she got there is testament to a very determined character. A St John's Ambulance volunteer who'd once shot a man in self-defence, she went to Serbia to serve as a nurse; but when she was separated from her colleagues, she promptly joined the Serbian army as a soldier instead. This was, for a 40-year-old British woman and the daughter of a clergyman, completely unthinkable but Sandes did it anyway. Not only that, she fought alongside men (the Serbian army accepted women) so well that she became a sergeant-major. She was wounded by a grenade in the line of fire, and the Serbian Military gave her their highest honour, the Order of the Karadorde's Star.
Pte. Alan Gates Sandford
British Army 1/15th (Civil Service) Btn. London Regiment
from:Gravesend, Kent
(d.11th Nov 1915)
Alan Sandford was born in March 1895 in Gravesend, Kent. He was the youngest child of Edward Augustus and Frances Sandford (nee Gates). Alan joined up on 8th of August 1915 and was killed in action on 11th of November 1915. He is remembered at the Loos Memorial and on his parents' grave at Gravesend Cemetery.
Lt. Richard Douglas Sandford VC.
Royal Navy HMS C3
from:Devon
(d.23rd Nov 1918)
Lt. Richard D. Sandford died on 23rd November 1918, aged 27. He is buried in in Eston Cemetery in Yorkshire He was the son of Ethel R. Sandford, of 15 The Beacon, Exmouth, Devon, and the late Ven. E. G. Sandford, Archdeacon of Exeter.
An extract from the fourth supplement to The London Gazette of 19th July, 1918, referring to the raid on Zeebrugge on 23rd April, records the following: "For most conspicuous gallantry. This officer was in command of Submarine C.3. and most skilfully placed that vessel in between the piles of the viaduct before lighting his fuse and abandoning her. He eagerly undertook this hazardous enterprise, although well aware (as were all his crew) that if the means of rescue failed and he or any of his crew were in the water at the moment of the explosion, they would be killed outright by the force of such explosion. Yet Lieutenant Sandford disdained to use the gyro steering, which would have enabled him and his crew to abandon the submarine at a safe distance, and preferred to make sure, as far as was humanly possible, of the accomplishment of his duty."
Pte. Sidney George Sandford
British Army 11th Battalion Essex Regiment
from:Elsenham
(d.4th May 1916)
ERA3. John Sandilands
Royal Navy HMS Defence
(d.31st May 1916)
John Sandilands died age 36. Born in Jarrow in 1881 the son of Charles and Mary Jane Sandilands of 3 Railway Street Jarrow. In the 1911 Census, John Sandilands, age 30, a Ship Fitter Engineer at the shipyard, is listed as living with his wife Henrietta at 49, Stothard Street, Jarrow-on-Tyne They had been married for 6 years & had 1 child that had died.
John is remembered on the Plymouth Naval Memorial and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Pte. Robert Sandilands
British Army 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry
(d.21st Sep 1914)
Robert Sandilands died aged 30. Born in Jarrow in 1884, son of James Chalmers Sandilands and Annie Sandilands (nee Murray) of 129 Hendon Road Sunderland. Robert Sandilands, age 27, a Ship Plater's Helper, lived with his wife Margaret Ellen (nee McCracken) & family in Phoenix Square, Sunderland, county Durham in the 1911 Census
Robert is remembered on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial
Pte. Robert Sandison
British Army 1st Btn. Highland Light Infantry
from:Glasgow, Scotland
(d.11th January 1917)
Robert Sandison was my great uncle. He was the younger brother of my grandfather, John Sandison.
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