Four: Stoker Petty Officer T. E. Saunders, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (298561, T. E. Saunders, S.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (298561 T. E. Saunders. S.P.O. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (298561 T. E. Saunders, Sto. P.O. H.M.S. Cornwall) mounted as worn, light contact marks, very fine (4) £100-£140

Thomas Edward Saunders was born at Wadebridge, Cornwall, on 19 August 1883 and commenced his naval service as a Stoker Second Class in H.M.S. Vivid II on 12 September 1901. He was advanced to Stoker Petty Officer in H.M.S. Cornwall on 11 January 1912, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in June 1917. He was paid a War gratuity to H.M.S. Resolution, and he was shore pensioned from H.M.S. Vivid II on 14 September 1923.