A Great War ‘Egypt’ M.C. group of eight awarded to Lieutenant Colonel J. M. B. Sanders, Leinster Regiment, and Adjutant 1/5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment

Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star (Capt., Leins. R.); British war and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, with bar, North Africa 1942-43; Defence and War Medals, generally nearly good very fine or better (8) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Michael McGoona Collection to the Leinster Regiment.

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M.C. London Gazette 2 February 1916.

M.I.D. London Gazette 28 January 1916.

Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Brodie Sanders, M.C., Leinster Regiment (Adjutant, 1/5th Battalion, Manchester Regiment) served in Egypt 25 September 1914 to 30 April 1915, Gallipoli 1 May to 26 August 1915, Egyptian Expeditionary Force, 20 January 1916 to 31 October 1918. He was wounded during the Great War, and in the Second War served in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Engineers Movement Control Section.