Service Details
Name:
 SAUNDERS
Given Name:
 JAMES RENAULT
Initials:
 J R
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Coldstream Guards
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Unit:
 2nd Bn.
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Date of Death:
 1918-11-04
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Date of Birth:
 1898-01-12
Age:
 20
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, by an artillery shell, at Villers-Pol, Valenciennes
Additional
Information:
Son of Edward and Gertrude Saunders, of Tongaat, Natal, South Africa. Educated at Hilton College, Natal. Played in the Harrow Football XI in 1914 and was Captain in 1915; Officer Training at Sandhurst Army College, England 1916; served with the 2nd Battalion in France 1917-1918. Remembered on a brass plate in the church of St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden, Essex, England. His original wooden cross tag was found in 2020
Commemoration
Country:
 France
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Locality:
 Nord
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Cemetery:
 VILLERS-POL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
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Grave Reference:
 J. 4.

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