Name
(Arthur) Keith Sanderson
23/09/1894
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
5th Bn., attached 7th Bn. London Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LOOS MEMORIAL
Panel 99 to 101.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Ealing, 23 September 1894. Educated at Rugby School from September 1908 to May 1913 and at Pembroke College, Cambridge from 1913 to 1914.
Wartime Service
At the outbreak of war he enlisted in the 1st Public Schools Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. In May 1915 he was commissioned in the 5th Battalion, The London Regiment, and went to France with the 7th Battalion on 17 August 1915. He was moved up to the Front on 14 September.
Additional Information
The only son of Arthur Bengough Sanderson and Amelia Girton Sanderson, of Morven, Potters Bar, Middx. Killed in action 25 September 1915 during the first day of the Battle of Loos. The Colonel commanding the 7th Battalion wrote :- "It will be some comfort to you to know that the steady way in which the 7th formed up after leaving our trenches, and advanced to the attack, earned the unstinted praise of all who witnessed it. It was a great success; the German first and second lines were taken, a dangerous counter-attack was met and defeated, and all ranks, including your son, did splendidly. He died leading his men to victory, and giving his life for home and country. We lost 14 Officers and 292 men killed, wounded and missing, but gained a great success."
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope, Nancy Wright