Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private G. K. Saunders, Gordon Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915

1914-15 Star (1701. Pte. G. K. Saunders. Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (1701. Pte. G. K. Saunders. Gord. Highrs.); Memorial Plaque (George Saunders) the plaque lightly polished, otherwise good very fine (4) £120-£160

George Kemp Saunders was born in 1895, the son of the Reverend Alex Saunders and his wife Isabel Saunders, of the China Inland Mission, Yangchow, China, and attested for the Gordon Highlanders whilst a medical student at Aberdeen University, preparing for missionary work in China. He served with the 4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 13 February 1915, and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of Loos, 25 September 1915, aged 20. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

For the recipient’s father’s Central China Famine Relief Medal, see Lot 729.