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Lance Bombardier BENJAMIN CHARLES EDWARDS

Service Number: 7669536
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

80 Field Regt.

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1945

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SITTARD WAR CEMETERY

G. 22.

Netherlands

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Benjamin Walter and Mary Edwards; husband of Florence Elsie Edwards, of Coventry.
  • Personal Inscription WHEN HIS HOPES WERE BEST HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY GOD GRANT HIM ETERNAL REST
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Buried or commemorated at

SITTARD WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 239
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