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Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Belgium Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Belgium
First Name: Leonard John Fullwell Last Name: BENHAM
Date of Death: 26/04/1915 Lived/Born In: Brixton
Rank: Private Unit: Honourable Artillery Company1
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Enlisted-Armoury House, Shoreditch

Dickebusch New Military Cemetery, Belgium

 

On 24th April, 1915, the 1st Honourable Artillery Company battalion of 7 Brigade, 3rd Division were relieved from the trenches at St Eloi, just to the south of Ypres and moved back to billets in Dickebusch. On 26th April, the day on which Leonard Benham was killed, their billets were shelled in the evening by shrapnel and the battalion sustained several casualties.

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