BORN HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKS 1892. SON OF DAN & JANE ELIZABETH SAUNDERS, OF 13 SAXON VILLAS, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS). HIS FATHER WAS FROM TYLER GREEN, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN HULL. HE WORKED AS A RAILWAY CLERK FRO THE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAYS.
HE MARRIED AMELIA HODGSON (1892-1969), AT HULL, IN JULY 1917. HIS WIFE AMELIA, LIVED AT 95, GLASGOW STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS)
HE SERVED AS CORPORAL, 401046, ROYAL ARMY MEDICAL CORPS. TRANSFERRED AS CORPORAL, Wr/175551, ROYAL ENGINEERS. HE DIED OF PNEUMONIA, AT HUNSLET, LEEDS, ON 05/03/1920, AGED 28. HE WAS AWARDED THE BRITISH WAR MEDAL AND VICTORY MEDAL.
NO SERVICE RECORDS TRACED. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CHURCH MEMORIAL, NEWINGTON, HULL.
First name:
JAMES WILLIAM
Military Number:
Wr/175551
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
05/03/1920
Place died:
Hunslet, Leeds, UK
Age:
28
13, SAXON VILLAS, EASTBOURNE STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
