BENSON, Robert Edwin

Rank: 
Lance Corporal
Unit / Base: 
41RM Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Royal Marines
Service: 
Royal Navy
Number: 
PO/X 102614
Born: 
Sunday, November 13, 1921
Birthplace: 
Salford, Lancashire
Died : 
Friday, September 17, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age: 
21
Cemetery/Memorial: 
Local Roll of Honour: 
Lance Corporal Robert Benson died during operations at Salerno, Italy, this date being that of the action on the hills by the village of Piegolelle (or Piegolette). In 1939 Robert was employed as a warehouse junior clerk residing at 11 Normanton Avenue, Salford, with his parents Robert and Eliza Benson.
 
Sources
CWGC.
Registers of Reports of Deaths - Naval Ratings / National Archives file ADM 104/127.
The 1939 Register covering Salford.
 
Primary Roll of Honour: 
Photo of grave in Gallery: 
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