Person    | Male  Born 1866  Died 19/1/1917

Samuel Saunders

Categories: Tragedy

Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page.

More information about Saunders on another IWM page.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Samuel Saunders

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Silvertown explosion - monument

Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...

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