Sandars Francis Wyld Major 27399
Personnel Entry
Name Sandars Francis Wyld
Army number 27399
Rank Major
Decorations D.S.O.and Bar, Liberty Cross.
Date of birth Birth registered Q2 1903, Birkenhead, Cheshire.
Age 0
Unit Posted 11th Bn DLI 8/1/1942 in command. Posted Northern Command 6/7/1942. Posted 10th Battalion DLI 22/7/1943. With the Battalion on disbandment. Posted 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment in command. Posted 304 Infantry Brigade. Appointed Aide de Camp to Her Majesty the Queen - retiring on 27/10/1955.
Company/Battery Command HQ, Battalion HQ.
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role GSO1, C.O.
Joined Brigade 08-Jan-42
Promotions Lt-Col, Brigadier
Wounded
Prisoner of War
Died/Killed in action 16/10/1986.
Home address Married Lavinia Margaret Dundas 19/4/1962.
Source table 10DLI
The award of the King Haakon of Norway Liberty Cross was gazetted on 19/3/1948, for clearing German troops from the Tromso Zone, post-war.
