Frederick Borthwick Sanderson

Second Lieutenant Frederick Borthwick Sanderson, “C” Battery, 258th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. Born in Comrie, Perthshire on 15 June, 1889 a son of Frederick Reid Sanderson, a Distiller, and Alice Helen Scott Sanderson, of 5 Glencairn Crescent, Edinburgh and 18, Campden Hill Court, Kensington, London. Educated at Edinburgh Academy (1896‐1900), Charterhouse and Caius College, Cambridge (1912) and Edinburgh University (1911‐1914) where he was studying medicine when war broke out. He was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Lowland Brigade, R.F.A. on 7 September, 1914 and entered France as a theatre of war on 24 October, 1915. He died of wounds on 10 August, 1916 at Rouen, aged 27, from wounds sustained whilst serving in “C” Battery, 258th Brigade, R.F.A. close to Mametz Wood during the Somme offensive. He is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, Seine‐Maritime, France, Grave Officers A.6.8. He was awarded the 1914‐1915 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal. He is mentioned in a death notice in The Scotsman, 12 August, 1916, the Edinburgh Academy Register, page 461 and the War Supplement to Edinburgh Academy Register, page 79, De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour 1914‐1918, Volume 2, page 268, and the University of Edinburgh Roll of Honour 1914‐1919, page 90