Full Name: Clifton Francis BENEFIELD Nationality: New Zealander Rank: Flight Lieutenant (Navigator) Service: Royal New Zealand Air Force Unit: 9th (RAF) Squadron Age at Death: 25 Date of Death: 25 April 1944 Service Number: 402463 Cemetery: Durnbach War Cemetery, Germany Reference: 2 H 6 View Clifton’s details on the Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database Military Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2079760/BENEFIELD,%20CLIFTON%20FRANCIS Clifton was born on 21 June 1918 in Wanganui, New Zealand, to parents Robert and Caroline Benefield…
Full Name: William John ARNOLD Nationality: British Rank: Able Seaman Service: Mercantile Marine Vessel: SS Achille Adam Age at Death: 28 Date of Death: 23 March 1917 Service Number: n/k Memorial: Tower Hill Memorial, London, UK CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/2979126/ARNOLD,%20WILLIAM%20JOHN EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/2979126/ William was born in 1889 in Dover, England, the third of 6 children born to Edward and Elizabeth Arnold (nee Fisher). In the 1901 Census William was 12 years old and living…
Full Name: Henry Joseph ARNOLD Nationality: British Rank: Private Regiment: East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) Unit: 2nd Battalion Age at Death: 37 Date of Death: 27 September 1917 Service number: G/4394 Memorial: Loos Memorial, France and Ospringe village war memorial, Kent, UK [pictured] CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/726739/ARNOLD,%20HENRY%20JOSEPH EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/726739/ Henry (known as ‘Harry’) was born in 1880 in Ospringe, Kent, to James and Mary Arnold (nee Videon). He was the ninth of 15 children born to then between 1864 and 1892. In…
Full Name: Joseph Davies Nationality: British Rank: Private Service: The Kings (Liverpool) Regiment Unit: 18th Battalion Age at Death: 29 Date of Death: 31 July 1917 Service Number: 59224 Cemetery: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium Memorial Reference: Addenda Panel 58 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/910218/DAVIES,%20J EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/910218/ Joseph was born in about 1886 in Denbigh, Wales and married Lucy Didsbury in 1906. They had two children who were aged 9 and 3 when Joseph was killed.
Full Name: Montague Evelyn Reginald DURRANT Nationality: British Rank: Lance Corporal Service: Gloucestershire Regiment Unit: 12th Battalion Age at Death: 30 Date of Death: 8 May 1917 Service Number: 37863 Cemetery: Arras Memorial, France Memorial Reference: Bay 6 CWGC Certificate: http://www.cwgc.org/search-for-war-dead/casualty/1540901/DURRANT,%20MONTAGUE EVERY MAN REMEMBERED: http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1540901/ Montague was born in 1885 in West Brompton, London, the fifth of 7 children born to George and Clara Durrant (nee Glover). He married Kate Murton in Faversham, Kent in 1910. In the 1911 Census…