Hilary Aidan Saint George Saunders CBE MC (14 January 1898 – 16 December 1951) was a British author, born in Clifton near Bristol.

In the attack, after a long fire fight, he led his platoon in a charge against an enemy post, being the first to reach it, and killing two and capturing the remainder of the garrison.

The rest of the day he was always well in advance with his platoon, and finally succeeded in consolidating a position further forward than any other part of the battalion line.

[citation needed] Saunders became known during World War II for his books and pamphlets, The Battle of Britain, Bomber Command, Coastal Command, etc., which he wrote officially and anonymously for the Government, and subsequently for The Red Beret and The Green Beret.

Saunders was also a postwar commentator on the scouting movements during World War II, chronicled in The Left Handshake, written in 1948.