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Private W BENSON

Service Number: 3345
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps

46th Coy.

Date of Death

Died 18 May 1916

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

V. C. 82.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Charlotte Benson, of Upholland, Wigan; husband of Elizabeth H. Benson, of 2, Fairhurst St., Gt. George St., Wigan.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE FROM HIS DEAR WIFE AND CHILDREN
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