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Military service
Service number:
L/100010
Age:
27
Rank:
Trooper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
12th Manitoba Dragoons, R.C.A.C.
Division:
18th Armd. Car Regt.
Birth:
January 9, 1917
Hatton
Enlistment:
March 11, 1942
Regina, Saskatchewan
Death:
August 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XVI. H. 10.
Additional information
Son of Odin and Lizzie Benson of Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan.
Digital gallery of Trooper Olin Benson
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Photo of Olin Benson
Picture sent to Olin's family members in Imperial,SK -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Regina Leader Post September 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery in France
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 248 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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