Name
Richard Ingersoll Saunders
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1915
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
26001
Canadian Infantry
14th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 24 - 26 - 28 - 30.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Shenley memorials
Pre War
Ricard was born in Shenley as the second son of James Harris Sanders and his wife Marie Louise (née Ingersoll Day). He was educated at Temple Grove, East Sheen, and Wellington College. After his education he went to German for a year; upon returning to England he started in business with Messrs. Jardine, Mathesons, Merchants in London.
In December 1911 he went to Canada and worked at the Bank of Montreal and the British Trade Commissioner's Office, ending up at the firm of A. K. Drury.
Wartime Service
Richard volunteered for Imperial Service on the outbreak of war and joined the 14th Battn. 'D' Coy, and came over with the first contingent in October 1914.
He went to France on the 10th of February 1915 and was reported "wounded and missing" during the Second Battle of Ypres, and was assumed killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners
Jonty Wild
