Percy Saunders

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Percy Saunders
Personal information
Full name Percival Kitchener Saunders[1]
Date of birth 9 July 1916
Place of birth Newhaven, England
Date of death 2–3 March 1942 (aged 25)[2]
Place of death SS Rooseboom, Indian Ocean
Position(s) Inside forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
0000–1936 Newhaven
1936–1939 Sunderland 20 (6)
1939 Brentford 0 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Percival Kitchener Saunders (9 July 1916 – 2–3 March 1942) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Sunderland and Brentford as an inside forward.[1][3]

Personal life[edit]

Saunders was a sergeant in the 18th Divisional Workshops, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, during the Second World War.[2] He served in the Far East and in late February 1942, shortly before the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, he was evacuated from Emmahaven on the SS Rooseboom.[4] The ship was headed for Bombay when it was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean on the night of 2–3 March 1942.[4] Saunders was killed and his name is listed on the Kranji War Memorial.[2] Saunders was the only former member of the Brentford and Sunderland squads to lose his life during the war.[4] 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.[5]

Career statistics[edit]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League FA Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Sunderland 1937–38[6] First Division 15 6 0 0 — 15 6
1938–39[7] First Division 5 0 0 0 1[a] 1 6 1
Career total 20 6 0 0 1 1 21 7
  1. ^ Appearance in Durham Senior Cup

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Haynes, Graham; Coumbe, Frank (2006). Timeless Bees: Brentford F.C. Who's Who 1920–2006. Harefield: Yore Publications. p. 141. ISBN 978-0955294914.
  2. ^ a b c "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. ^ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 375. ISBN 0951526200.
  4. ^ a b c McGarraghy, Paul (18 August 2019). "Football Noir Issue #7 – Percy Saunders". Over The Bar. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  5. ^ "Memorial unveiled at SoL". SAFC. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  6. ^ "1937–38 : Football League Division 1". Sunderland AFC – Statistics, History and Records – from TheStatCat. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  7. ^ "1938–39 : Football League Division 1". Sunderland AFC – Statistics, History and Records – from TheStatCat. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
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