First Name: | Leonard John Fullwell | Last Name: | BENHAM | |
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Date of Death: | 26/04/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Brixton | |
Rank: | Private | Unit: | Honourable Artillery Company1 | |
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Current Information: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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