The regimental diary for 21st June 1917 has an entry from Captain J D Hills who wrote a very graphic account of the incident: at dusk on the...
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Private
Service No. 240760
Age 20
Died on 21 June 1917
Leicestershire Regiment
NOEUX-LES-MINES COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France
Son of John and Mary Benton, of 13, Market Place, Melton Mowbray. Enlisted Sept., 1914.
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Thanks for everything you did. You're still remembered. Your great great nephew.
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John, O valiant heart, to whom your glory came. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry
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In memory of John Benton. In every pang that renders the heart the man of sorrow had a part.
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The regimental diary for 21st June 1917 has an entry from Captain J D Hills who wrote a very graphic account of the incident: at dusk on the...
Duncan Vaughan
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John, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment an...
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