Notes
Alexander Henry Muirden, known as Sandy, was born in India on 22 August 1919, the only son of Constance and Alexander Muirden, a civil engineer with the Indian Railways. He was educated at Loretto School from 1932 to 1937, where he was a house prefect and served as a Corporal in the School Officer Training Corps.
Sandy Muirden entered Worcester College on 8 October 1937 to study Forestry, and won the Coopers Hill War Memorial Prize as “the most meritorious student completing his course of training ... during the years 1939-41”.
Sandy Muirden was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers on 13 December 1939 and was posted to Folkestone. On 21 October 1940 2nd Lieutenant Alexander Muirden was killed at Greenwich in London while defusing a bomb in an air raid. He was 21 years old.
Sandy Muirden is buried at Fowey Cemetery in Cornwall and is commemorated on the war memorial there, as well as on the war memorials at Loretto School and Worcester College, Oxford.