Date of birth 1916 Name Percy Saunders Playing position | Place of death Indian Ocean Place of birth Newhaven, England | |
Full name Percival Kitchener Saunders Date of death March 1942 (aged 25–26) | ||
Percival Kitchener "Percy" Saunders (9 July 1916 – 2 March 1942) was an English professional football left winger who appeared in the Football League for Sunderland and Brentford.
Personal life
Saunders was a sergeant in the 18th Divisional Workshops, Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War. He was killed in action when his ship was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean in March 1942. His name is listed on the Kranji War Memorial. Saunders was the only former member of the Brentford and Sunderland squads to lose his life during the war. In December 2014, Saunders and other Sunderland players who lost their lives during the two world wars were commemorated with a statue outside the Stadium of Light.
References
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