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Bombardier LESTER GORDON BENSTEAD

Service Number: 6940
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

152nd Heavy Bty.

Date of Death

Died 13 December 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MESNIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

II. B. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ephraim and Rosanna Benstead of South Creake, Church End, Fakenham, Norfolk.
  • Personal Inscription GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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Buried or commemorated at

MESNIL COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 333
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