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Private JAMES JOSEPH BENSON

Service Number: 6478883
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Corps of Military Police

Date of Death

Died 11 September 1943

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY

II. A. 22.

Italy

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. H.Q. Defence Platoon, 4th Parachute Bde. Army Air Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of James Joseph and Emma Benson, of Romford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription MAY GOD IN HIS MERCY MAKE US WORTHY TO JOIN YOU DARLING SON. POP AND BIBBY
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Buried or commemorated at

BARI WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 2251
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