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Private JOHN BENTON

Service Number: 240760
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

"C" Coy. 1st/5th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 June 1917

Age 20 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY

II. B. 20.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of John and Mary Benton, of 13, Market Place, Melton Mowbray. Enlisted Sept., 1914.
  • Personal Inscription IN EVERY PANG THAT RENDS THE HEART THE MAN OF SORROW HAD A PART
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