From there he went to Java, where he met and married, in November 1946, Cornelia "Corrie" Ronteltap, who had been a prisoner in various Japanese camps. The situation in the Dutch East Indies was very unstable, with armed bodies of Indonesian nationalists determined to prevent a return to Dutch rule. In some places the disarming of the Japanese was postponed as they assisted the Indian Army in maintaining law and order, and Sanders had to carry out air reconnaissance in a Japanese plane with a Japanese pilot. In 1947 Sanders left the Army and sailed to England with his wife and their first daughter. After a brief experiment with fruit farming, he joined the Suffolk-based Greene King Brewery, and in 1953 became brewery manager at Cambridge. Sanders was President of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles Association from 1992 to 1995, and of the Cambridge Branch of BLESMA (the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association) from 1964 to 1999.