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VC665 Arthur Frederick Saunders
BORN 23 April 1878
DIED 30 July 1947 AGE 69
VC Won 26 September 1915 AGE 37
Place VC Won East of Loos, France
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Arthur Frederick Saunders No. 3/10133
VC Issue No. 665 Awards VC
Regiment Suffolk Regiment, 9th (Service) Battalion
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Sergeant
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth St John's Parish, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Place Of Death At his home, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Buried/Location Ashes Ipswich Crematorium (Old Cemetery), Cemetery Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Cremated Ipswich Crematorium (Old Cemetery), Cemetery Lane, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Date Buried/Cremated 5 August 1947
Headstone Ashes Plot/Grave no. August Lawn, Garden of Rest (closed in 1975, now situated in front of Temple of Remembrance)
Gazetted 30 March 1916
VC Presented 27 June 1916, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Panel at Temple of Remembrance (panel D-64), Ipswich Crematorium, Suffolk
Saunders mews, Ipswich, Suffolk
Blue plaque, Cauldwell Hall Road, Ipswich, Suffolk
By The Way…
He served 15 years in the Royal Navy before the war
VC Held By
Suffolk Regimental Museum, The Keep, Gibraltar Barracks, Out Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
