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Signalman BENJAMIN JAMES

Service Number: 14630004
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

Date of Death

Died 17 December 1944

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot 9. Row 8. Grave 8.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Ethel James, of West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS: GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
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Buried or commemorated at

OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 432
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