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Rifleman ERNEST FREDERICK BENSTED

Service Number: 6851557
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Royal Rifle Corps

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 August 1944

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

IX. D. 24.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest and Jennie Bensted; husband of Ethel Frances Violet Bensted, of Dagenham, Essex.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY BELOVED HUSBAND. A VOICE WE ALL LOVED IS STILLED
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Buried or commemorated at

RANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 2566
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