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Name: F C SAUNDERS
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 821 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Sparrowhawk, Hatson
Date of death: 1940-09-22
Aircraft: Swordfish L 7635
Place of death: At sea, 60 degrees 8'N; 3 degrees 23' W.
Circumstances: MISSING
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 1, Panel 3
Family details: Son of Edgar Walter and Violet Saunders of Parkstone, Dorsetshire; husband of Enid Margaret Saunders
Rank: Sub-Lieutenant (A)
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 821 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Sparrowhawk, Hatson
Date of death: 1940-09-22
Aircraft: Swordfish L 7635
Place of death: At sea, 60 degrees 8'N; 3 degrees 23' W.
Circumstances: MISSING
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 1, Panel 3
Family details: Son of Edgar Walter and Violet Saunders of Parkstone, Dorsetshire; husband of Enid Margaret Saunders
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