Captain JOHN MARTIN BENSON
Regiment & Unit/Ship
Northumberland Fusiliers
4th Bn.
Date of Death
Died 27 May 1918
Age 26 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 149th T.M. Bty.
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of John and Jeanie Law Martin Benson, of Marionville, Airdrie. Educated at Airdrie Academy and St. Salvators, St. Andrew's, and afterwards at Fettes and Merton College, Oxford. Enlisted in Glasgow Highlanders, Sept., 1914. Gazetted to Highland Light Inf, Oct., 1915. Twice previously wounded.
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