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Peter Sanders (Indian Army officer)
Lt Colonel Peter Sanders, DSO (23 October 1911 – 19 September 2003), who lost an arm policing the won the Indian-Afghan frontier in 1939 before winning a DSO at the Battle of Imphal in 1944 while commanding Gurkha infantry in several hard-fought battles.
==Early life==
Geoffrey Peter Vere Sanders was born at Abbotabad, in North-West Frontier Province. The son and grandson of Gurkha officers, he was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton and at RMC Sandhurst, and was commissioned in January 1932 into the 1st Battalion 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), the regiment in which his father, who had won a DSO in the First World War, and grandfather had served.
Sanders remained with his battalion until 1937, when he was seconded to the Tochi scouts - a corps of Pathan irregulars commanded by British officers, and assigned to patrol and police the troubled Indian-Afghan frontier. The young officers who commanded such units assumed much greater responsibility than they would have had with their parent units, and Sanders first saw action here against Waziri tribesmen. In 1939, while clearing a booby-trap, he lost his right arm. Some time later he was invited to a tikala (lunch) by the Pathan who had laid the trap; an apology was offered and accepted, in the tradition of border warfare.
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