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Name SANDERSON
Initials RH
First name RONALD HARCOURT
Place of birth High Hurstwood, Uckfield
Country Sussex, England
Family Only son of the Rev. Prebendary Edward and Mary Jane Sanderson, of The Rectory, Uckfield, Sussex; married Nora Dorothy Buller in 1916;
Education Elstree School; Harrow School; Trinity College Cambridge (admitted as a fee-paying student, June 1895); took his BA in 1900
Profession Joined the Royal Artillery in 1900
Extra info Rowed for Cambridge in 1899 and 1900 (two victories); became member of Leander Club and was crew member of the Leander eight which won the gold medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Rank Lieutenant Colonel
Medals Chevalier, Legion of Honour (France)
Regiment and unit 148th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
Army - Corps - Division 30th Division
National force B.E.F.
Attached or transferred from Royal Horse Artillery
Other data related to military career Served as Second Lieutenant in the Second Anglo-Boer War; disembarkation to France on 7 August 1914;