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Staff Serjeant BENJAMIN PATRICK WARD

Service Number: 7880738
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 02 October 1943

Age 33 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY

7. P. 11.

Iraq

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Frank and Anna Stacia Ward; husband of Annetta Ruby Wells Ward, of South Chingford, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF A DEAR HUSBAND AND SON. FOR EVER IN OUR HEARTS
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Buried or commemorated at

BASRA WAR CEMETERY
Iraq
Number of casualties: 3071
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