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Private JOSEPH SAUNDERSON

Service Number: 7253448
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

Date of Death

Died 29 January 1942

Age 44 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LEIGH CEMETERY

Sec. 41. Grave G. 30.

United Kingdom

Headstone picture taken at time of site survey. WW1 in this cemetery are Stancliffe. WW2 are Portland

Photographer: Adam Kelsall

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Joseph and Margaret Saunderson; husband of Mary Saunderson, of Atherton.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF A DEAR HUSBAND AND FATHER. MAY HE REST IN PEACE. HIS LOVING WIFE AND FAMILY
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Buried or commemorated at

LEIGH CEMETERY
Lancashire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 105
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