Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. Imperial War Museum has a page.
Also, "There appears to be a connection between Walter Mauger and another Brunner Mond employee who died in the explosion, Sidney Joseph Benstead. Mauger was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands, as was Sidney's mother, Julia. The two men, both in their mid twenties, were living at the same address, 26 Lindon/Liddon Road, Plaistow, when they died."
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sidney Joseph Benstead
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...
Caretaker of the Rednock School, Dursley, who also worked as a local councillor. Killed in the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster aged 41. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out further research: Robert Ho...
At about 12:40am on Saturday 25th February 2017, 28 year old Jonathan McPhillips, also known as 'JJ', was attacked and stabbed in Upper Street near to Assembly Hall, Islington (at the Town Hall). H...
Civilian killed in the crash of Hampden bomber P4399. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly researched this woman: Alice Yates was born on 25 September 1899, the daughter of Edward Thomas Yates an...
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