Captain JOHN PATRICK GORDON BENSON
Service Number: 204003
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Royal Artillery
56 Heavy Regt.
Date of Death
Died 14 May 1943
Age 24 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 655 A.O.P. Sqdn. (Air Observation Post) Royal Air Force
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of Sybil Marjorie Benson and stepson of Martin Henry Benson, of Cheveley, Cambridgeshire.
- Personal Inscription TOMORROW SHALL BE OURS AND WE SHALL CAST A GIRDLE ROUND THE WORLD OF MUTUAL AMITY AND LAY UPON EARTH'S SWEATING BROW THE GARLAND OF ETERNAL PEACE
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