Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. awarded to Corporal T. W. Sanderson, 7th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who died of wounds on 6 December 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (R-7025 L. Cpl., 7/K.R.R.C.) edge bruising, nearly very fine £280-320

M.M. London Gazette 18 July 1917.

Thomas Walker Sanderson was born in Clapham, Lancashire; lived in Bentham, Yorkshire, and enlisted at Lancaster. Serving with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 21 May 1915. As a Lance-Corporal in the 7th Battalion he won the Military Medal for bravery in action. Serving as a Corporal with the 7th Battalion, he died of wounds on 6 December 1917. He was buried in the Passchendaele New British Cemetery.