Lieutenant, His Majesty's Motor Gun Boat (H.M.M.G.B.) 86, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve. Eldest son of Michael Thomas Harvey Sadler, a well-known publisher and author, and Edith Tupper-Carey, of Lower Througham, Stroud. Baptised at St. James Norlands, Kensington, on October 11, 1916. He was educated at Gresham's School and then went up to Balliol College, Oxford, where he took his bachelor's degree in geography [1]. He was a keen athlete and distinguished himself as a hockey and tennis player and in track athletics. He was also a skilful and enthusiastic photographer. In the summer of 1937, just after coming down from Oxford, he went to Greenland with the Oxford University Exploring Club, and helped to survey a hitherto uncharted area. He had intended to become a schoolmaster, with geography as a specialised subject. However, when war was declared, he was in the United States, acting as tutor and companion to a younger boy. He returned to England, reaching Southampton on September 29, 1939, and immediately volunteered for the Navy. He was called up in the summer of 1940, and had several months as an ordinary seaman at a training base, and on board a destroyer in and about the Atlantic approaches. He got his commission in the spring of 1941. After a period as second officer, he was promoted to lieutenant and was given command of a motor gunboat. He was killed in action, at sea. His commanding officer said of him "He is quite one of the outstanding officers under my command, and a great loss to the Service which he served with unfailing devotion". He was the grandson of Sir Michael Sadler, Knight Commander (K.C.S.I.), formerly Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University, and Master of University College, Oxford. He was also the grandson, on his mother's side, of Canon Tupper-Carey, who until the war began, was English chaplain at Monte Carlo [2]. He was awarded posthumously the Atlantic star with ribbon, the 1939-1945 star with ribbon, and War medal, 1939-1945, with ribbon. He is interred next to his father's grave and the design of both headstones is identical.

[1] p6, Gloucester Journal, Saturday, October 17, 1942.
[2] p4, Gloucestershire Echo, Friday, October 9, 1942.