1916

Charles Benjamin Benton

Countries: France

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

Private or Lance Corporal. Number S/449 in the 7th Battalion of the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment). Born in Bermondsey. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme.

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