Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Three: 2nd Lieutenant C. R. McAndrew, Warwickshire Yeomanry and Machine Gun Corps, late Staffordshire Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (2758 L-Cpl., Staff. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.) good very fine (3) £350-400

Charles Roy McAndrew was born at Sparkhill, Yardley, Warwickshire on 23.12.1891. Living with his parents at Sutton Coldfield he was educated at Aston Grammar School. After leaving school he was a clerk in the employ of the Metropolitan Bank in Walsall. Serving in the Staffordshire Yeomanry, he was called up on 5.8.1914 and after serving in the U.K. for 12 months was posted to Egypt where he remained for a year. With his time expired he returend home and, in March 1917, took a commission in the Warwickshire Yeomanry. In August 1917 he was sent to Egypt and Palestine with his regiment. On 8 November 1917 the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry took part in one of the last cavalry charges of the British Army against enemy infantry and artillery at Huj in the Sinai Desert. McAndrew remained in the Middle East until May 1918 when, with his regiment, he left for home aboard H.M. Transport Leasowe Castle. On 27 May 1918, 104 miles west of Alexandria, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine, killing 92 persons including the ship’s captain and McAndrew’s commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel H.A. Grey Cheape, D.S.O. McAndrew survived the sinking only to be killed in action by artillery fire on the Western Front on 21 September 1918 whilst leading his section to new positions near Epehy. He was buried in Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery. Sold with extensive copied research details.