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Sgt. Alfred Sanders
British Army 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Longton
The Sentinel newspaper spelt his name as Saunders, when in actual fact it was Sanders.
My relative was Alfred Sanders. He was born in 1895 in Longton, Stoke on Trent. He joined the colours in 1914 and the census records states he lived in Heaths Passage. He joined the 8th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment. On July 3rd he went over the top under the command of Major Cecil Wedgwood. Wedgwood and many others died. Alfred survived the Somme Campaign then on the last day, 18th November, took part in an attack against Grandcourt. There was a blizzard and bitter fighting took place. 173 men from Stoke were killed. Alfred was presumed dead. Then in March 1917, he appeared in the archives as being a prisoner of war in German hands. I have found the German records stating which camps he was in and his medal index card shows he returned home in 1919. He died in 1951 and is buried in Longton Cemetery.His older cousin born in 1892 was my great great grandad and also called Alfred Sanders. He served with the 7th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment in Gallipoli and was wounded in July 1916. He went on to the 1st South Staffs Regiment and served at Ypres in 1917 when he was discharged for being wounded in October 1917.
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