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Gunner JOHN WHITFIELD BENSON

Service Number: 14332031
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

Date of Death

Died 16 March 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

GILGIL WAR CEMETERY

E. 22.

Kenya

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 307 Field Regt. East African Artillery
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Louisa Benson, of Ripon, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription TREASURED MEMORIES OF MY DEAR SON JOHN
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Buried or commemorated at

GILGIL WAR CEMETERY
Kenya
Number of casualties: 256
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