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Gunner WILLIAM BENN

Service Number: 858390
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

53 Medium Regt.

Date of Death

Died 12 June 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

III. A. 13.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Arthur Charles and Alice Benn; husband of Rose Benn, of Kentish Town, London.
  • Personal Inscription GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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