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Researchers Notes - Mr David Waspe- No record of a Private C Saunders can be found for the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment or in the CWGC records.
868 soldiers with the surname Saunders died during WWI.
10 were in the Wiltshire regiment of which 2 were in the 2nd Battalion, Privates George Henry Saunders and Reginald Bailey Saunders.
60 soldiers who died during WWI were a C. Saunders, 33 with the rank of Private, but none of these were in the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire regiment or any other Battalion.
C. Saunders is recorded on the Salisbury War memorial and the Casualties of WWI with Salisbury Connections but without any details.
There is a Private C W Saunders who served from 1914 in the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment and survived.
The surname Saunders does appear in Laverstock records, William George Saunders married Hannah Wright both from Laverstock in 1918 and Arthur West married Amy Saunders both from Laverstock in 1897. William Saunders is recorded in 1900 as owning a freehold property in Laverstock and entitled to vote in Parliamentary and Parochial elections.
No record of an C. Saunders can be found linked with Laverstock other than on the War Memorial and on the original faculty in the parish records held in Chippenham.
Private George Henry Saunders 2nd Wiltshire Regiment Service No. 33220 was killed in action on the 4th December 1917. The record was originally recorded for Saunders “Cha” but the first name was then crossed out.
It is likely that C Saunders 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment as recorded on the war memorial and George Henry Saunders, Service No. 33220, 2nd battalion, Wiltshire Regiment are the same person. There is no known grave, George Henry Saunders is remembered on the Tyne Cot memorial, Belgium. Panel 119 to 120