He could be Alfred Henry Sanderson, Essex Regiment. A well researched Ancestry tree gives full details of the man, I cannot be sure but there is a reasonable chance that this is he. The family believe that he was using name Sanders when in Ireland. On the other hand he is reported as a Private in Essex, and the family believed he was in Black and Tans, but there is no reord on RIC roll.
Year of Disappearances show a Private Sunders of Essex Regt Missing 6 Sep 1921. Courtmacsherry. 5999596 Pte Saunders
1876 Feb 7. Birth at 12 Mill Row, Kingsland Rd, Hackney/Shoreditch, Middlesex
1881 census at 23 Mill Row, St Leonards, Shoreditch, London, England
1891 census at 23 Mill Row, St Leonards, Haggerston, Shoreditch, Middlesex
1898 Married to Esther E Garratt at All Saints Church, Haggerston, both sets parents present, witnessed by Caroline Garratt, Jessie Sanderson and Edward Hounslow . They appear to have had 11 children.
1901 census at Royal Arms, Frimley Road, York town, Camberley, Surrey, England. He is Travelling as Licenced Hawker re Paints, Colours, Oils
1906 Joined 7th Bn Royal E. Kent ('the Buffs') Territorial Force
1907 Living at Herne Bay, Kent. He ran his own paint/oil/colour shop/business
1910 Joined 3/7th Bn (Reserve) Essex Regt.,Territorial Force, Cpl No:1999
1911 census living at 27 Coopers Lane, Leyton, Essex, England
1913 May 1. Enlists in Essex Regt
1915 Aug 1. Lands at Lemnos, Greece. Cpl No 1999, B Coy,1/7 Bn Essex Regiment, 161 Brigade, 54 Division, BMEF, Gallipoli Campaign
1915 Aug 10. Lands Suvla Bay
1916 Jun 27 Evacuated wounded/sick to UK, possibly Dec1915 or Jan 1916, Cpl no; 29455, 3/7 (Res) Bn Essex Regt., Later posted to France
1917 Feb 16 Admitted to County Of Middlesex War Hospital At Napsbury with Trench Fever
1917 Mar 22 . Discharged from hospital . Gets Leave
1919 Dec 20. Discharged late in 1919 aged 43. Silver War Badge
1919 Dec 25. At 120 Alwyn Road, Liverpool. Casual Labourer/Colourman on 2s/day
1920 May 8. Separated from his wife. Essex County Court Judgement , Stratford, against AHS for desertion of wife and children, ordered to pay 2 Pounds/week to Esther plus 12s 6d court costs
1920 Jun Possibly enlists in 'Black and Tans' at 10s/day under A. H. Sanders, returns to Ireland until disbandment 1921. Not heard of by family again, possibly changes name, no death record found, rumoured to have lived until 90 in SW London, Kingston, Surrey . There is no record of him in RIC roll.
1924 May 9. Min of Pensions letter to his estranged wife that "address" of your husband... cannot be furnished by this office" and that "no further payments are due to you from this office". No further word heard of AHS whereabouts,
1927 Oct 3. Frederick D Sanderson born (I cannot get birth)
1931 Aug 26. William A Sanderson born, (BMD shows in Pembroke, with mother's maiden name of Roberts - there is a Florence Beatrice Roberts born London in that month)
1939 Register. Living at 98 Ranelagh Road , Felixstowe U.D., Suffolk
1956 Jan/Mar. Died Debden , Suffolk
British Soldiers missing in Ireland