Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant W. F. Sanderson, Hertfordshire Imperial Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (224 Sq. Q.M. Sjt. W. F. Sanderson, Herts. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (244 Sq. Q.M. Sjt. W. F. Sanderson, Herts. Yeo.); Imperial Yeomanry L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (224 Sjt: W. F. Sanderson. Herts: I.Y.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (William F. Sanderson) minor edge bruising, very fine (5) £500-£700

William Frederick Sanderson was born at Willesden, Middlesex, on 24 June 1866 and attested for the Hertfordshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry at Islington, London, on 4 February 1896. He was awarded his Imperial Yeomanry Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in May 1906, and was advanced Squadron Quartermaster Sergeant on 16 May 1908. Following the outbreak of the Great War he was embodied into the Hertfordshire Yeomanry on 5 August 1914, and, landing in Alexandria on 26 September 1914, served in the Egyptian theatre of War from 5 November 1914, subsequently serving in Gallipoli. He was wounded by a gun shot wound to the back in Gallipoli on 2 October 1915, and was invalided to the U.K. on 29 November of that year. He was discharged, time expired, on 9 April 1916, aged 50, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

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