Saunders, J
About Saunders, J
JAMES SAUNDERS
Remembered with honour Watford (Vicarage Road) Cemetery: Plot L, Row 1, Grave 13.
He enlisted 5 November 1917 as Boy II Class for 12 years’ service.
Son of the late David and Elizabeth (nee MOODY) SAUNDERS.
His parents married 1892 in the Watford district. Elizabeth died 1907 aged 35; David died 1913 aged 51; both in the Watford district.
James was born 5 November 1899 in Watford. He died at The Infirmary, Watford, following an operation, and was buried 1 April.
On the 1901 Census, aged 1 he lived in Watford, with his parents and six siblings. On the 1911 Census, he was an inmate of the Watford Union Homes, with one sibling.
Service number
J/34737(Dev)Rank
Able SeamanRegiment
Royal Navy (27)
Place buried
Date of death
27/03/1919Place of death
England (137)
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James is possibly the James SAUNDERS commemorated at St Mary'sSearch by memorial
- 1st S.W. Herts Scout Troop [in St Mary's Parish Church Watford] (4)
- Abbot's Langley Herts War Memorial (17)
- Aldbury Herts War Memorial (1)
- Aldenham Herts War Memorial (located in Letchmore Heath Herts) (8)
- All Saints Church Croxley Green Herts (12)
- All Saints Church Harrow Weald Middx (2)
- All Saints Church Hertford (1)
- All Saints Church King's Langley Herts (1)
- All Saints Church Leavesden Herts (31)
- All Saints Church Witham Essex (3)
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