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Saunders, C E



Charles E Saunders

Private Charles E Saunders
1st Battalion, Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

Photographed at Bourne Park Camp, near Canterbury, on 22 June 1917 "on a hot day". They had left the island about three weeks earlier, and they stayed there until they left for France on 26 September.


Number 391 Private C E Saunders from St Martin's was wounded on 20 January 1918 and again on 12 April 1918. He was invalided to England on 17th April, then rejoined the battalion with Reinforcement 18, the last draft, on 29 October 1918, before eventually coming home on the SS Lydia in May 1919.

 

Courtesy of the Priualx Library