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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

Buried or commemorated at

NEWMARKET CEMETERY

Plot O. Grave 400.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • 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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