Captain Franklin Geoffrey Saunders MC* (born 3 June 1891, date of death unknown) was a Welsh World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories.
[2] On 27 January he was posted to HMS Pembroke, the shore establishment at Chatham, while attending a course of instruction at the Central Flying School, as a probationary sub-lieutenant in the Royal Naval Reserve.
[3] Soon after the outbreak of the Great War, he transferred to the Army, as he was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant on the General List on 9 September 1914.
[4] At some point between then and late 1916 Saunders was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, as on 14 January 1917 he gained his first aerial victory while serving in No.
Flying a B.E.12 single-seat fighter he shared in the forcing down and capture of an Albatros Type C reconnaissance aircraft over Lahana with Second Lieutenant Gilbert Green.