Description
Officers Royal Army Pay Corps (late Royal Engineers) Coronation and Long Service group.
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army, 1860449 S.Sjt. C. E. Sanford. R.A.P.C.( surname officially corrected), swing mounted as worn.
Cecil Edward Sanford was born in Emsworth on 11 June 1901
He enlisted at Portsmouth for the Royal Engineers 22 April 1919. Transferred to the Royal Army Pay Corps 15 March 1920, he served as Sergeant in Singapore from 4 January 1929 and was awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal in 1937. Posted to Chatham that same year, he was appointed to an Emergency Commission as Lieutenant 23 December 1940 and was advanced Acting Major and Staff Paymaster Class 2 on 24 October 1945. Sent to Cyprus in 1951, he served at Western Command Chester (Hoole Hall) from 6 May 1952.
He died whilst still in service at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, on 8 February 1956.
Condition – GVF
