SAUNDERS, Albert William

Credit: CWGC

Corporal

270th Siege Battery

Royal Garrison Artllery

Albert was born 1894 in Carisbrooke to Alfred & Sarah (nee BRETT) SAUNDERS who were living in Shalfleet around the time of Albert’s death. In 1901 the family were living at Park Place in Carisbrooke.

Albert, aged 23, Died of Wounds on the 15th of April 1917 when his rifle misfired. He is buried in Section II Row E Grave 20 of the Aubigny Communal Cemetery Extension in France, beneath a Commission Headstone alongside 2,771 of his First World War comrades.

Albert is also remembered on the Calbourne War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.