Sergeant George Sanders V.C. of the 7th West Yorkshire (Leeds Rifles) regiment, taken in 1916.

George Sanders was born in Leeds in 1894 to Thomas and Amy Sanders and was educated at Little Holbeck School. George enlisted for service on November 9th 1914 and was drafted to the 1/7th Battalion as a corporal, West Yorkshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Own). He was awarded the Victoria Cross medal for his actions during the Battle of the Somme. On 1 July 1916 near Thiepval, France, Sanders found himself isolated with 30 men after an advance into the enemy trenches. He organised defensives and detailed a bombing party in order to keep the position. The next day he drove off an attack by the enemy and rescued some captured prisoners, all while having no food or water having giving it to the wounded. He received his medal on 18 November 1916 at Buckingham Palace and then returned to the front where he was captured at Mount Kemmel as Acting Captain Sanders. He was released and discharged from the army in 1919. He returned to Leeds where he died in 1950, aged 56.