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Sandilands, H G



Henry George Sandilands

Brigadier General Sir Henry George Sandilands, CB


1914 Star

Mentioned in Dispatches four times.

Born in 1865 at Alderney. Died in 1930 at Bournemouth

C.B. London Gazette 18.2.1915 Lieutenant-Colonel H.G. Sandilands (34th Brigade).

Brigadier-General Henry George Sandilands, C.B., born 1864; Lieutenant Royal Artillery, 1884; Captain 1893; Acting Adjutant, Peshawar District, 23.8.1897-30.9.1897; Major 1900; served as Adjutant 2nd Brigade Division Royal Field Artillery in South Africa (Mentioned in Despatches London Gazette 8.2.1901); Lieutenant-Colonel 1910; Colonel 1913; Officer Commanding 34th Brigade Royal Field Artillery 1914-17, and served on the Western Front from, 17.8.1914; Brigadier-General Staff, 3rd Division 25.2.1915-18.2.1916; 54th Division 3.11.1916; served with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, November 1916-December 1917 (C.B.; M.I.D. London Gazette 19.10.1914; 17.2.1915; 1.1.1916 and 12.1.1918); retired Brigadier-General 1919

Courtesy of Stuart Mathewson (Ancestry.co.uk)

 

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