Air Chief Marshal HL Saunders
Hugh Lumsden Saunders
Air officers
- Rank
- Air Chief Marshal
- Honours
- GCB KBE MC DFC & Bar MM
- School
- Marist Brothers
- Born
- 1894
- Fate
- Survived the war. Died 1987
- In the book
- Pages 30, 166
From the book
Links of Long Standing
HL Saunders, educated at Marist Brothers in Johannesburg with Air Vice-Marshal Sir Quintin Brand, earned the “Military Medal” with the Witwatersrand Rifle Brigade, completed his flying training in 1917, earned a “Military Cross” and “Distinguished Flying Cross” and “Bar”. An Air Vice- Marshal by 1943, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Lumsden Saunders GCB KBE MC DFC & Bar MM retired in 1953 and died in 1987.