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Military service
Service number:
A/47044
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
Division:
1 Amb. Coy.
Death:
November 14, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
D, F, 461.
Additional information
Son of Angus George and Katherine Anne Saunders, of Southampton, Ontario. Husband of Helene Saunders, of Stokes Bay, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
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Southampton Cenotaph
Gordon Lewis Saunders is remembered on the Southampton Cenotaph. This war memorial includes plaques with the names of men from World Wars 1 & 2. The WWII list is inscribed: "In Memory of the Men of Southampton who Gave Their Lives in World War Two". Southampton is in Bruce County, Ontario. This photograph was taken by Mr. Clive Freeman in the summer of 2002. -
Entrance
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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Agira Canadian War Cemetery
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View of Mt. Enna
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Grave marker
Grave marker from Gordon Saunders' grave at Agira Canadian War Cemetery, Sicily, Italy. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times November 1943. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
Digital gallery of
Private Gordon Lewis Saunders
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 210 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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