Personal Number: 68105 Rank: Captain Name: Mervyn Edwyn Myles SANDYS Unit: Grenadier Guards London Gazette : 3 July 1936 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34301/page/4230/data.pdf GENERAL LIST. UNIVERSITY CANDIDATES. The undermentioned to July 1936:— Mervyn Edwyn Myles SANDYS. London Gazette : 27 August 1937 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34430/page/5441/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds.— 2nd Lt. Mervyn Edwyn Myles SANDYS, from Gen. List, T.A. 30th Jan. 1936, next below 2nd Lt. J. E. Seymour. London Gazette : 31 January 1939 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34594/page/681/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds.— The undermentioned 2nd Lts. to be Lts. 30th Jan. 1939:— M. E. M. Sandys. London Gazette : 1 February 1944 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36353/supplement/570/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds The undermentioned Lts. to be Capts. 30th Jan. 1944: — M. E. M. Sandys (68105). London Gazette : 30 January 1948 https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/38191/supplement/729/data.pdf FOOT GUARDS. Gren. G'ds. Capt. M. E M. SANDYS (68105) retires receiving a gratuity, 30th Jan. 1948, and is granted the hon. rank of Maj.
From The Grenadier Guards in the war of 1939-1945, by Nigel Nicolson and Patrick Forbes. v.2. Pages 439-440