WW1 British War Medal 1914-18 To Pte James Blair Saunders, Saunders 6th Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

6th Bn., Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
was Killed In Action on 13 November 1916 Age 22
Son of James and Janet Saunders, of 5, Marion St., Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Remembered with Honour
Hunters Cemetery, Beaumont Hamel
Hunter's Cemetery stands at the upper end of "Y" Ravine, within Newfoundland Memorial Park.
Beaumont-Hamel was attacked in vain on the 1st July, 1916, and captured by the 51st (Highland) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Divisions on the following 13th November.

Hunter's Cemetery (the origin of the name may refer to a Chaplain attached to the Black Watch, the Rev. Hunter) is, in fact, a great shell-hole, in which soldiers of the 51st Division, who fell in the capture of Beaumont-Hamel, were buried after the battle.
There are now over 40, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site
Together with copy of scroll and Commonwealth War Graves Details and Medal Index Card

Code: 56764