Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. F. Sanders, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 (16974 Pte., R.A.M.C.); British Red Cross Society Technical Medal, clasp, Pharmacist (21 John Fletcher Sanders), gilt and enamel, with buckle on ribbon, nearly extremely fine (2) £120-160

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals relating to the Boer War formed by two brothers.

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John Fletcher Sanders was born in Ilminster, Somerset. A Dispensing Chemist by occupation, practising in Ilminster, he attested for short service with the Royal Army Medical Corps at Taunton on 10 January 1902. He served in South Africa, 21 March-6 September 1902 and 23 September 1902-6 January 1903. He was discharged on the termination of his period of engagement on 9 January 1903. Sanders registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain on 19 July 1904 - his address given as ‘Budleigh House, Silver Street, Ilminster’. In 1914 and between the wars his address was ‘East Street, Crewkerne’.

British Red Cross Archive shows that he served as a pharmacist between October 1914 and December 1918 attached to the Somerset/62nd Detachment at Hinton House Hospital, Crewkerne. With copied service papers and other research.