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RAMC profile of:

Horace James SAUNDERS
[Service No: 36737]

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Place or Date of Birth:	Southampton

Service Number:	36737

TF Number:

Rank:	Pte

Unit:	H.M.H.S. "Galeka"

Attached To:

Enlistment Location:	Birmingham

Also Served:

Outcome:	Died at sea

Date Died:	28/10/1916
Age Died:	22

Where Buried and/or Commemorated:	France - Ste Marie Cemetery, Le Havre - "Galeka" Memorial

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Other Information:

Horace entered the war in the Balkans on 11th July 1915. He was serving on the hospital ship "Galika" when the ship was sunk by a mine explosion near the Havre at 6 a.m. on 28th September 1916. He was the son of the late Henry John Lavers Saunders and Edith Saunders of 4 Lyndon Road, Stechford, Birmingham.


Additional Information:	Date Added: Monday 30 October, 2017

Horace's name is commemorated on the Ste Marie memorial

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