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Military service
Service number:
B/25464
Age:
26
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Engineers
Division:
6 Field Coy.
Death:
June 11, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXIII. G. 6.
Additional information
Son of Alonzo and May E. Benner, of Simcoe, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sapper George Alonzo Benner
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Photo of George Alonzo Benner
In Memory of the men from Norfolk County who gave their lives in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Board
In Memory of the men from Norfolk County who gave their lives in World War 11. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
Sapper George Alonzo Benner is also commemorated on the Memorial at Putot-en-Bessin, FR … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
This monument is dedicated to the memory of the Canadian soldiers of the Royal Winnipeg Rifles and to all other Canadian combatants who played a part in the Liberation of Putot-en-Bessin on 7 June 1944. Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Sapper George Alonzo Benner
Digital gallery of
Sapper George Alonzo Benner
Digital gallery of
Sapper George Alonzo Benner
Digital gallery of
Sapper George Alonzo Benner
Digital gallery of
Sapper George Alonzo Benner
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 247 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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