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Corporal CYRIL ERNEST BENTON

Service Number: 5625809
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Hampshire Regiment

1/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 26 September 1943

Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY

III. F. 38.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Lionel and Jessie Benton; husband of Kathleen Maud Benton, of Maidstone, Kent.
  • Personal Inscription THIS SACRED PLACE IN A FOREIGN LAND IS FOR EVER ENGLAND. "SEMPER FIDELIS"
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Buried or commemorated at

SALERNO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1855
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