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Major VICTOR FORD (DINKS) BENKE

Service Number: 95158
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

26 Medium Regt.

Date of Death

Died 30 October 1944

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CESENA WAR CEMETERY

VI, A, 1.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Lt.-Col. Victor Etheridge Benke and Gertrude May Benke, of Formby, Lancashire.
  • Personal Inscription THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND
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Buried or commemorated at

CESENA WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 775
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