Lorne Lamont Saunders

Rank:

Flight Lieutenant

Unit at enlistment:

Royal Flying Corps, 46th Squadron

Force:

R.F.C.

Volunteered or conscripted:

Volunteered

Survived the war:

Date of death:

October 4th, 1918

Cemetery:

Bronfay Farm Military Cemetery - Somme, France - II.G.21.

Commemorated at:

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, B.C.I. High School Memorial Plaque

Birth country:

Canada

Birth county:

Brant

Birth city:

Brantford, Ontario

Address at enlistment:

11 Centre Street, Brantford, Ontario

Next of kin address:

11 Centre Street, Brantford, Ontario

Trade or calling:

Manager

Employer:

Brantford Carriage Works

Religious denominations:

Anglican

Marital status:

Single

Age at enlistment:

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Letters and documents

BX October 8, 1918

Lorne Lamont Saunders Reported Missing

Mrs. Saunders, 11 Centre Street, received word that his son, Flight Lieutenant Lorne L. Saunders has been reported missing on October 4. The secretary of the Air Ministry advises that a letter follows with particulars. Lieut. Saunders left here in March this year. Prior to his enlistment he was manager of the Brantford Carriage Company.

Brantford Courier October 8, 1918

Lorne Lamont Saunders Missing Since October 4

Mrs. Saunders, 11 Centre Street, received a cablegram this morning from London, announcing that her son, Lieutenant Lorne Lamont Saunders, of the Royal Air Flying Force, has been reported missing since October 4th. The message added that a letter would follow.

Lieutenant Saunders, who had been training in Texas and Toronto, left Brantford on last leave in March of 1917. He had since seen service at the front, as readers of The Courier will remember, because of the many interesting letters sent by him. At the time of enlistment he was manager of the Brantford Carriage Company. He would be twenty in February next. His relatives and friends still hope that he may be a prisoner. Mrs. F. Saunders, Sterling Street, is his grandmother.

BX February 21, 1919

Details of Death of Flight Lieutenant Lorne Lamont Saunders

In a letter from her brother, Trumpeter Fred Briston, Mrs. Saunders of this city has received word how her son, Lieutenant Lorne Saunders, met death with his commander in the air. There was great activity at the time and many machines were ablaze. Trumpeter Briston saw his nephew, Lieut. Saunders, fall, but did not know how the occupants of the machine were at the time.

BX August 7, 1918
Saunders, Lorne Lamont (Flight-Lieutenant)

Soon to Join Air Squadron Fighting

Writing to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saunders, 11 Centre Street, city, Flight Lieutenant Saunders, now in France, says:

Well, I am with my squadron at last. It is a good squadron, one that gets the Huns. The fellows are pretty decent chaps. I have not been on a show yet. We do not go into Hunland until we have had three weeks along and behind the lines. It will be two weeks yet before I go over with a formation for a scrap. I have done a bit of flying here. Sometimes a couple of us will go up and do a bit of scrapping between ourselves for practice. I say it is great sport trying to get on the other fellow’s tail. While up to the lines with our battery, I saw our squadron fighting a large formation of Huns, and it was a great sight. Although some of our boys were wounded, the Huns sure did get the devil.