Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1911-1966 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
2 files
Scope and content
Papers relating to Sanders' life and military career, 1911-1966, including five letters of appreciation, 1911-1927, mostly relating to Sanders' work as Superintendent, Army Remount Service, No 3 Depot, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 1914-1920, notably typescript letter from Gen Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief, British Armies in France, 3 Jun 1918; manuscript letter to Sanders from Lt Gen Adrian Carton de Wiart, from Rome, Italy, relating to his capture and imprisonment by Italian forces, 10 Aug 1941; painting of final mounted parade, 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, Edinburgh, 15 Aug 1938; edition of Wandsworth Borough News, with photograph and article on the 28 Bn, (Wandsworth), County of London, Home Guard, commanded by Sanders, 26 Sep 1941.
System of arrangement
2 files
General Information
Name of creator
Biographical history
Born 1871; served in ranks, 4 (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, [1887-1902]; service in Rawalpindi, India, 1894-1906; commissioned as Riding Master and Hon Lt, 4 (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 1902; served in South Africa, 1906-1908; responsible for providing horses for foreign representatives at the Coronation of HM King George V, 1911; Hon Capt, 1912; served in World War One, 1914-1918; Superintendent, Army Remount Service, No 3 Depot, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, 1914-1920; Maj, 1917; service with 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, 1922-1928; retired 1928; served in World War Two, 1939-1945; attached to Animal Defence League and organised evacuation of animals from London to the country, 1940; Commanding Officer, 28 Bn, (Wandsworth), County of London, Local Defence Volunteers (LDV, later Home Guard), 1940-1942; Polo Secretary, Ranelagh Club, Fulham, London; died 1954.
Repository
Custodial history
Presented to the Centre by the family in three accessions in 1985 and 1986.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.
Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description.
Note
Decorations: OBE
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Wars (events)
- Armed forces
- Army personnel
- Cavalry
- Fine arts
- International conflicts
- International relations
- Military engineering
- Military logistics
- Military organizations
- Organizations
- Painting
- Paintings
- Photographs
- State security
- Visual materials
- War
- Warfare
- War prisoners
- War victims
- World War One (1914-1918)
- World wars (events)
- World War Two (1939-1945)
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.