BENSON Henry Aloftus
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- Rank
- First enlistment was with Kennedy Regiment 8th August 1914.
- Born
- Charters Towers, Queensland
- Enlisted
- 8th August 1914
- Enlisted in
- Kennedy Regiment
- Occupation at enlistment
- Labourer
- Embarked from
- “Kanowna” to Thursday Island – shipped to German New Guinea to recapture area
- Cause of death
- Killed in action 8th July 1916 by a sniper at Messines, France
- Buried
- La Pus Douve Farm Cemetery, France
- Remark
- Ship’s crew protested and the mission was aborted and ship returned to Townsville.
- Re-enlisted
- 27th January 1915
- Discharged
- 18th September 1914
- Son of
- Son of Andres and Francis Catherine Benson of Crib Point Post Office, Victoria
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