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In loving memory of Susan, the wife of
Alfred Benger of the India Office
London & daughter of John Pinniger
of this parish who died December 22 1877
and of her son Major Alfred Horace
Benger the Leicestershire Regiment who
was killed in action in France April 17 1917
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Down Ampney (All Saints)
Gloucestershire
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Alfred Horace
Benger
15th December 1877
Herne Hill, London
17th April 1917
Died from wounds received when a shell burst on Windmill Hill near Mazingarbe in France along with several other officers and other ranks
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Mazingarbe Communal Cemetery Extension, France
First World War
Major
11th Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
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