Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Lieut. J. B. Hayes-Sadler, Royal Engineers.

MONS STAR 1914; BRITISH WAR and VICTORY MEDALS; together with Bronze Memorial Plaque, extremely fine (4)

Edwin John Berkeley Hayes-Sadler, Lieut., Royal Engineers, 3rd s. of Lieut.-Colonel Sir James Hayes-Sadler, late Governor of the Windward Islands; b. 1 Oct. 1887; gazetted 2nd Lieut. Royal Engineers 31 Dec. 1906; promoted Lieut. 6 Jan. 1909; was A.D.C. to the General Officer Commanding Mauritius from 18 Dec. 1909, to 9 Oct. 1911; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and was killed in action there 28 Oct. 1914. Extract from 'Indian Sappers and Miners', by Sandes:- 'Then Hayes-Sadler appeared with his section and together we worked steadily forward, clearing the main street, house by house. At the cross-roads in the centre of the village, a machine gun opened fire on us at point-blank range, and Hayes-Sadler charged forward against it. He was killed immediately, but we soon got that machine gun and avenged his death.'