Awards & Winners

Richard Sandford

Date of Birth 11-May-1891
Place of Birth Exmouth
(United Kingdom, East Devon, England, Devon)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Soldier
Richard Douglas Sandford VC was a Royal Navy officer and an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was a son of the Venerable Ernest Grey Sandford, Archdeacon of Exeter; his great-grandfather was Daniel Sandford, the Bishop of Edinburgh, and his brother was Brigadier Daniel Sandford. Richard Sandford attended Clifton College whence he joined the Royal Navy. At 26 years old, he was a Lieutenant commanding a submarine, HMS C3 in the Royal Navy during the First World War when he took part in the Zeebrugge Raid and won the Victoria Cross. The citation read: Sandford died of typhoid fever at Eston Hospital, North Yorkshire, 12 days after the signing of the Armistice, and the day after his last command, HMS G11, had been wrecked on rocks off Howick, Northumberland; his Victoria Cross is displayed at the Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth.

Awards by Richard Sandford

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1918


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 22-23rd April, 1918 as Lieutenant of the HMS C3 during the First World War.)