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Military service
Service number:
679024
Age:
35
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn.
Birth:
April 21, 1882
Enlistment:
January 27, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
May 22, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
In North-East part.
Additional information
Son of Isaac and Ann Benson. Husband of Annie H. Benson, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Digital gallery of Private John Benson
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Press Clipping
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Photo of John Benson
Caption (pg. 389): NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND MEN OF PEEL KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR. Author - William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto, 1935. -
Grave Marker
This is a photo of John Benson's CWGC headstone at his grave in St Cuthbert Churchyard Lorton Cumbria -
Memorial
This is a photo of John Benson's family headstone in St Cuthbert Churchyard Lorton Cumbria -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private John Benson
Digital gallery of
Private John Benson
Digital gallery of
Private John Benson
Digital gallery of
Private John Benson
Digital gallery of
Private John Benson
Digital gallery of
Private John Benson
Digital gallery of
Private John Benson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 200 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LORTON (ST. CUTHBERT) CHURCHYARD Cumberland, United Kingdom
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