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Flight Sergeant JOHN GIBSON BENSON

Service Number: 1115201
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

120 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 09 January 1943

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

REYKJAVIK (FOSSVOGUR) CEMETERY

C40. 29.

Iceland

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert and Mary Benson, of Plumbland, Cumberland.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY AND THE BETTERMENT OF MANKIND
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Buried or commemorated at

REYKJAVIK (FOSSVOGUR) CEMETERY
Iceland
Number of casualties: 216
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