McAndrew Charles Roy 2/Lt

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Surname: McAndrew;

Forename(s): Charles Roy;

Initials: CR;

Rank: 2/Lt;

Born in: Birmingham;

Previous Regiment: Warwks Yeo;

MGC Branch: Infantry;

MGC Unit: 100 Bn;

How killed: KIA;

Where: France;

When killed: 21-Sep-1918;

Other Data: born 23/12/1891 at 472 Stratford Rd, Sparkhill, B'ham. Educated King Edward Gr Sch, Aston. A Bank Clerk, aged 23, in 1916. Father: Charles McAndrew (Manager, London City & Midland Bank,Metropolitan Branch,Birmingham), Mother: Fanny Linde McAndrew( nee Marsh)
Joined 8/6/1916 as 6548 and later 202073 5 Warwks. U/L/Cpl 3/5 Bn 13/6/1916, L/Cpl 9/11/1916. Commissioned 3/1 Warwk Yeo 25/8/1917

Date of Auction: 20th September 2002 (DNW)
Sold for £780
Estimate: £350 - £400
Three: 2nd Lieutenant C. R. McAndrew, Warwickshire Yeomanry and Machine Gun Corps, late Staffordshire Yeomanry

1914-15 Star (2758 L-Cpl., Staff. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.) good very fine (3) £350-400
Footnote
Charles Roy McAndrew was born at Sparkhill, Yardley, Warwickshire on 23.12.1891. Living with his parents at Sutton Coldfield he was educated at Aston Grammar School. After leaving school he was a clerk in the employ of the Metropolitan Bank in Walsall. Serving in the Staffordshire Yeomanry, he was called up on 5.8.1914 and after serving in the U.K. for 12 months was posted to Egypt where he remained for a year. With his time expired he returend home and, in March 1917, took a commission in the Warwickshire Yeomanry. In August 1917 he was sent to Egypt and Palestine with his regiment. On 8 November 1917 the Warwickshire and Worcestershire Yeomanry Cavalry took part in one of the last cavalry charges of the British Army against enemy infantry and artillery at Huj in the Sinai Desert. McAndrew remained in the Middle East until May 1918 when, with his regiment, he left for home aboard H.M. Transport Leasowe Castle. On 27 May 1918, 104 miles west of Alexandria, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine, killing 92 persons including the ship’s captain and McAndrew’s commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel H.A. Grey Cheape, D.S.O. McAndrew survived the sinking only to be killed in action by artillery fire on the Western Front on 21 September 1918 whilst leading his section to new positions near Epehy. He was buried in Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery. Sold with extensive copied research details. PHOTO;

Other Notes: McANDREW, Second Lieutenant, CHARLES ROY, Warwickshire Yeomanry and Machine Gun Corps. Killed in action 21st September 1918. Age 26. Son of Charles and Fanny Linda McAndrew, of The Mount, Clifton Rd., Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. VI. D. 16. Epehy Wood Farm Cemetery, Epehy - Somme, France.;

Related National Archives files: WO374/43498;

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