£1,000
WWI MC group of five, Military Cross (Capt A J Lander The Sherwood Foresters) 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal and India General Service Medal, one clasp Burma, 1930-32, Lieutenant A J M Lander Notts & Derby R [on Star; Captain A J M Lander on pair, A J M Lander on last] with copied research
Military Cross: London Gazette, 25 August 1916: "For conspicuous gallantry at Fricourt on 2 July 1916, when two men were wounded and caught in the wire he went out, and, with the assistance of two stretcher bearers, cut them free in the heavy rifle and machine gun fire, and got them into safety"
Captain Anthony John Meads Lander (1895-1944) of Nottingham. A photograph of the officer in uniform is illustrated Housley, C - British Gallantry Awards of the Sherwood Foresters, p59
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