BORN HULL 1894. THIRD SON OF SAMUEL SAUNDERS (1865-1918) & MARTHA ANN MUMBY (1871-), AT 2, RODNEY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). THIRD OF NINE CHILDREN. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS. A CORPORATION LABOURER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 2 INCHES TALL, 36-38 INCH CHEST
HE MARRIED FLORENCE MABEL CARTER (1895-1977), IN JULY 1914, AT HULL, WHEN WAR BEGAN.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED AS A DRIVER IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. POSTED TO FRANCE, ON 12/07/1915. HE DIED OF BRONCHO PNEUMONIA, ON 14/11/1918, AGED 23. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, FLORENCE MABEL SAUNDERS AND TWO CHILDREN, AT 20, WALLER STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HE IS BURIED ON THE SOMME, AT ABBEVILLE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
First name:
ALFRED
Military Number:
21273
Rank:
Driver
Date Died
14/11/1918
Place died:
Abbeville Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France
Age:
23
20, WALLER STREET, HOLDERNESS ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
