Alfred Harry Sanders (1871-1903) was adjutant, 3rd Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. He quartered at Cairo during the winter of 1901-1902, and joined the Egyptian Army as a Bimbashi on 30 January 1902. He was posted to 15th Soudanese Battalion, which he joined at Berber on 16 February, and served with two other British officers, Lt. Col. Sir E. Hill, Irish Fusiliers, and Major Hawker, Coldstream Guards, who left almost immediately to command X Soudanese. He died of blackwater fever at Marseilles on 9 May 1903, when returning home from leave.