World War 1
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Philip Noel Sanderson
Forename(s):
Philip Noel
Surname:
Sanderson
Initial(s):
P N
Service Number:
Officer
Rank:
Captain
Regiment:
King's Own Scottish Borderers, 1st Battalion
Died:
26/04/1915
Aged:
27
Buried:
Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Service History:
Received a commission in the 2nd Battalion King's Own Scottish Borderers, 9 October, 1907. Promoted Lieutenant 24 March, 1909. Exchanged to the 1st Battalion, & went with them to Khartoum & India. There he made a special study of signalling, & when ordered to Ismailia, in October 1914, was appointed to General Wilson's Staff, & the following month gazetted Captain.
Returned to England during the formation & equipping of the 29th Division. Stationed at Rugby whence he proceeded to the Dardanelles.
He landed on 25 April, fell mortally wounded on the following day, & was taken to the Hospital Ship 'Guildford Castle', where he died the same day. He was buried at sea a mile off Cape Helles, with his Colonel, another officer, & six of his men.
(N.B. 'Soldiers Died...' gives date of death as 25 April, 1915.)
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-18'; Part 1; Page 318 [also, available via Ancestry.co.uk])
Background:
Born on 24 May 1887, at Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, the second son of William John Sanderson, of Eastfield Hall, Warkworth, Northumberland, by his wife, Amelia, (Amy; née Wright).
Educated at Marlborough (May 1901 until midsummer 1905) & Sandhurst.
Sanderson married at Lucknow, Bengal, India, Doris Audrey Cower Jordan (b. 1893), daughter of Charles Jordan, of Richmond, Yorkshire.
One of two sons lost: see, also, Lieutenant Geoffrey Euan Sanderson (Royal Fusiliers [City of London Regiment], Public Schools Battalion, attached to Machine Gun Corps; Died 1 July 1916).
(Source: 'UK, De Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, 1914-18'; Part 1; Page 318 [also, available via Ancestry.co.uk])
Apart from Geoffrey Euan, brother to Elspeth Blanche, William John, & Dorothy Phyllis.
Sanderson's father was a Brewer & Maltster who owned the Haymarket Brewery in Newcastle, was Lord Mayor of Newcastle, & founder of the J. W. Sanderson Home for Crippled Children in Gosforth.
(Source: 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; pp. 69-70)
Local Memorial:
Marlborough, Marlborough College Roll of Honour
(Source: For Marlborough, 'Portraits of War...'; Edited & compiled by June Watson; Wildgoose Press; 2016; p. 69)
Warkworth War Memorial, by St Lawrence's Church
Warkworth, Brass Plaque in memory of both br
