BENNION, Thomas James
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Rank:
Corporal
Unit / Base:
1 Commando
Prior Police Service:
Stoke on Trent City Police
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Armoured Corps
Service:
Army
Number:
14241783
Born:
Sunday, July 18, 1915
Died :
Saturday, March 17, 1945
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
29
Cemetery/Memorial:
Corporal Thomas Bennion died of wounds received during operations at Kangaw, Burma. Son of James Owen Bennion and Florence Mary Bennion, of Baldwin's Gate, Staffordshire. In 1939 Thomas Bennion was a Police Constable residing in Stoke on Trent. He volunteered in 1942 for Commando service joining a Police Intake to the Commando Depot (Commando Basic Training Centre), Achnacarry. Thomas is amongst those commemorated on the Staffordshire Police War Memorial located at Staffordshire Police Headquarters, Weston Road, Stafford.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archibes file WO417/90.
The 1939 Register covering Stoke on Trent.
Image of the Police War Memorial Plaque held by the IWM ref. 92616.
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