A photographic tribute by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to Harold Sanders. A photo of Kranji War Cemetery. A young man born in a small wheat belt town lost far away in the Tropics. Silently remembered.
A photographic tribute by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Harold came from a small northern wheat belt town of Victoria. What should have been the big adventure of a young man with his mates ended at such a young age. What might have been.
Harold Arthur Sanders of Wunghnu, VIC Australia was born on August 9, 1919 in Wunghnu to Susan Ann (Piggott) Sanders and William Sanders. He had siblings Leslie Mark Sanders, Charles Alexander Sanders, Raymond Robert Sanders, Joan Clara Sanders, Elsie May Elizabeth Sanders, William Josiah Sanders, Mary Jane (Sanders) Butler, and Vera Lilian (Sanders) Smith. Harold Sanders died at age 22 years old on April 9, 1942 in Malaya, and was buried at Kranji War Cemetery Grave : 2.C.3, in Singapore.
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