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Lance Corporal JOHN NELSON BENFIELD

Service Number: 6206244
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Corps of Signals

4th Armd. Bde. Group Sigs.

Date of Death

Died 12 June 1942

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY

2. E. 21.

Libya

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Herbert Edward and Ellen Clara Benfield, of Harringay, Middlesex.
  • Personal Inscription AT REST
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Buried or commemorated at

TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY
Libya
Number of casualties: 2480
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