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868 Private Stephen Saunders 11th Battalion Manchester Regiment
06/02/2025
First World War Army United Kingdom TYNE COT MEMORIAL
By Ian Paul Barber

United Kingdom

Private Stephen Saunders
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Tyne Cot Memorial. Image. Ian and Karen’s World War 1 Memorial page (FB).

Stephen was born in St Martins, Guernsey, Channel Islands in 1888.

He was a Regular Soldier in 1911 serving with The 1st Battalion Manchester Regiment in India. Stephen Married Edith Selina Seymour in 1909 in Alverstoke, Hampshire.

Stephen was Killed in action on the 16th August 1917, aged 29.

Stephen has no known grave and his name is Commemorated on The Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

Husband of Mrs. Edith Burgess (formerly Saunders), of 14, Mill Lane, Forton Road, Gosport, Hampshire.