Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mr George Harold Saunders (Gunner)

Title: Mr
Forenames: George Harold
Surnames: Saunders
Date of Death: 23/07/1916
Age at Death Years: 21
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Gunner
Map Reference Number: RSHG 047 C1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section K Plot 3592
Grave Description: Upright rectangular headstone with engraved side panels. Lead lettering and surrounding kerbstones.
Grave Condition Description: Quite good
Other Information: Added 2nd name, source: Registrars and Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Old Website Grave ID: 14695

Inscription:

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
MATILDA
WIFE OF LIEUT G H SAUNDERS
WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY
JUNE 1ST 1934
AGED 65 YEARS

ALSO OF HER ELDEST SON
GEORGE
GUNNER R.F.A
KILLED IN FRANCE JULY 23RD 1916
AGED 21 YEARS

AND OF HER HUSBAND
GEORGE HOOK SAUNDERS
WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY
JULY 29TH 1936
AGED 71 YEARS

Stone flower urn
MOTHER

Photographs:

David Earle
G Saunders 05 JUL 2014
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
G Saunders 05 JUL 2014
Photographer: David Earle

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