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William Eli Benson

Lance Corporal

Service No. 9482

Age 33

Died on 25 April 1915

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

West-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Son of William and Ellen Benson; husband of Elizabeth Benson, of 134, Broomfield Rd., Coventry.

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Henry Harrison

William, O valiant heart, who to your glory came through dust and ashes …. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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From friends of the Legion at the Coventry Building Society

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

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William, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Warwicks...

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