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Private WILLIAM BENZ

Service Number: 3536013
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Manchester Regiment

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 13 August 1943

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY

B4. B. 15.

Myanmar

Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Myanmar - photos of individual gravemarkers shared on CD by Outer Area, January 2009: Plot B4

Photographer: Outer Area

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Celeste Benz and Edith Benz, of Blackpool, Lancashire; husband of Sally Benz, of Marton, Blackpool.
  • Personal Inscription WITHOUT FAREWELL, MY DEAR, YOU FELL ASLEEP, LEAVING US ONLY MEMORIES OF YOU TO KEEP
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Buried or commemorated at

THANBYUZAYAT WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 3770
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