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Private WILLIAM BENSON

Service Number: 18592
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Grenadier Guards

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 23 July 1916

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ESSEX FARM CEMETERY

II. Z. 15.

Belgium

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Benson, of Bury.
  • Personal Inscription TILL THE DAY DAWNS AND THE SHADOWS FLEE AWAY
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

ESSEX FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1206
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