Figure 2. Stan Saunders was born 28 June 1920; like most of his generation, fate was to be unkind. Called up 14 November 1940 to become Army Service No. 5510034, his first leave (shown above on a page from his ‘Soldier’s Service & Pay Book’) was for a 7 day ‘Embarkation’ leave, starting 8 April 1941. These dates probably mean he sailed on convoy WS8A (Arnold Hague, 2007), which sailed from the Clyde on 26 April 1941, down the Atlantic via South Africa, arriving at Suez 13 June 1941.