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Lance Serjeant ERIC STANLEY BENN

Service Number: 4750381
Regiment & Unit/Ship

York and Lancaster Regiment

The Hallamshire Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 August 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY

III. C. 3.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of Edwin Stringer Benn, and of Ada Benn, of Leeds, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY LOVED "SHELTERED BY THE ROCK OF AGES"
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Buried or commemorated at

ST. DESIR WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 603
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