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Name: J W SAUNDERS
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 894 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Indefatigable
Date of death: 1944-08-15
Aircraft: Seafire
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LYNESS ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY - Orkney
Commemoration details: Plot P, Row 5, Grave 22
Family details: Son of Walter James Saunders and Florence Ethel Saunders, of Torquay, Devon; husband of Dorothy Saunders (nee Bargery)
Rank: Temp Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RNVR
Squadron: 894 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Indefatigable
Date of death: 1944-08-15
Aircraft: Seafire
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: KILLED
Buried/commemorated: LYNESS ROYAL NAVAL CEMETERY - Orkney
Commemoration details: Plot P, Row 5, Grave 22
Family details: Son of Walter James Saunders and Florence Ethel Saunders, of Torquay, Devon; husband of Dorothy Saunders (nee Bargery)
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