Education
Dulwich College.
Dulwich College.
Educated at Dulwich College, Sanderson joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 during World War I. He transferred to the newly formed Royal Air Force at the end of the War and was made Officer Commanding Number. 19 Squadron in 1931. He was appointed Station Commander at Royal Air Force Ramlah in 1938 and served in World World War II as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Royal Air Force Palestine and Transjordan and then at Royal Air Force Mediterranean before becoming Air Officer Administration at Air Headquarters Egypt. He continued his war service as Director of War Organisation and then as Director of Administrative Plans at the Air Ministry.
He was seriously injured in an air crash in February 1945.
After the War he was appointed Air Officer Commanding Air Headquarters Burma and then Air Officer Administration at Headquarters Air Command Far East. He went on to be Air Officer Commanding Air Headquarters Malaya in 1948 and Director-General of Personnel at the Air Ministry in 1949.
He became Air Officer Commanding Far East Air Force in 1952 before retiring in 1955.
