BORN HULL 27/05/1887. SON OF WALTER & MARY BENSON.
HUSBAND OF LILIAN BENSO (BORN 17TH DEC 1892), AT 12, CLOVELLY GARDENS, & 8, FILEY GROVE, SUBWAY STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES). THEY HAD ONE SON ALBERT HENRY (BORN 15TH APRIL 1915).
BEFORE THE WAR, HE WORKED FOR THE HUMBER SHIPWRIGHT COMPANY, ST ANDREW S DOCK, HULL.
AN ENGINE ROOM ARTICIFER. HE WAS KILLED WHEN HIS VESSEL EXPLODED, IN DOVER HARBOUR, ON 16/09/1918, AGED 31. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND SON, ALBERT HENRY, BORN ON 15/04/1915.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 25/09/1918. HIS WIDOW WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION OF 24 SHILLINGS AND TWO PENCE. SE MOVED TO 4, EDITH GROVE, BRIGHTON STREET, HULL.
First name:
JOHN WILLIAM
Regiment:
Military Number:
PO.M.15317
Rank:
Engineman
Date Died
16/09/1918
Place died:
Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery, Kent
Age:
31
12 CLOVELLY GARDENS, SUBWAY STREET, HESSLE ROAD, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
