Ronald Charles Sandham
Attended Queen Elizabeth School from 1922 to 1925.
After school he gained employment as a sales representine of the General Post Office in Nottingham. He became the Mansfield District representive in the telephone department.
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At the time of his birth Ronald's parents, John and Harriett Sandham, where living at 2 Mansfield Road, Alfreton. By 1939 they where living at 8 Chesterfield Road North, Mansfield.
Ronald had 5 brothers, John Edward (1900), Thomas Stanley (1902), Ernest (1904), James (1906) and Frank (1915). He left £555 17s 5d to his widowed mother. His father had died on 10th July 1943.
According to Old Elizabethan's Service Roll CQSM Ronald Charles Sandham was killed along with 4 companions as a result of a fire on the 2nd July 1944 in East Africa. He is buried in Nanyuki Military Cemetery, Kenya.
He was serving as a Territorial at the outbreak of war and was subsequently transferred to the King's African Rifles from the Sherwood Foresters.
The fire was in a house used for accommodation for European instructors. The others who died were CQSM Harold Dunscombe, Colour Sgt Nathan Osgothorpe, Sgt Harold Judson and CQSM Agnus Ian Murray.
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