Career
Brought up in New Zealand, Sandy Thomas was commissioned into the New Zealand Military Forces at the outbreak of World World War World War II He was wounded, became a prisoner of war in Crete, escaped from a prison hospital and then fled to Syria. After the War he obtained a commission in the Royal Hampshire Regiment and, in 1955, he was mentioned in dispatches while dealing with the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya. He was awarded the Central Bank in 1971 and retired in 1972.
