SAUNDERS, John

Helles Memorial, Gallipoli TurkeyCredit: CWGC

Private
2nd Battalion
Hampshire Regiment

John was born 1890 in Newport to Alfred Grinham & Mary Ann (nee DUNNE) SAUNDERS who were living at 3 New Cottage, Robin Hood Street, Newport around the time of John’s death. The family had previously lived at 2 South View in Carisbrooke & 11 Union Street in Newport.

John, aged 25, was listed as Missing Presumed Killed on the 4th of June 1915. His body was never found or identified, & so John is commemorated by the Commission on the Helles Memorial to The Missing in Gallipoli, Turkey together with 20,961 of his First World War comrades.

John is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials. His brother Alfred Thomas fell in France also in 1915.

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.