In Memory Of

SAUNDERS, JAMES RENAULT

Service Details
Age:
 20
Date of Birth:
 1898-01-12
Rank:
 Lieutenant
Unit:
 2nd Bn.
Regiment:
 Coldstream Guards
Date of Death:
 1918-11-04
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, by an artillery shell, at Villers-Pol, Valenciennes
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 J. 4.
Cemetery:
 VILLERS-POL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
 Nord
Country:
 France
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