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Corporal WILLIAM ALBERT JOHN BENFIELD

Service Number: VX14579
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry

A.I.F. 2/7 Bn.

Date of Death

Died 20 August 1943

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY

S. B. 16.

Papua New Guinea

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Albert Ernest and Alice May Benfield, of Woorinen North, Victoria.
  • Personal Inscription HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE
FOR EVERMORE: STORIES OF THE FALLEN
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Buried or commemorated at

LAE WAR CEMETERY
Papua New Guinea
Number of casualties: 2819
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