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Sapper Benjamin Gaines

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Military service

Service number: 829389
Age: 29
Rank: Sapper
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Engineers
Division: 1st Tunnelling Coy.
Birth: April 17, 1889 Leeds, England
Enlistment: November 29, 1915 Manitoba
Death: August 8, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: III. D. 4.
Additional information
Husband of Laura Gaines, of Thornhill, Dewsbury, England.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 412 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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LONGUEAU BRITISH CEMETERY Somme, France

The town of Longueau is situated on the south-eastern outskirts of Amiens and the LONGUEAU BRITISH CEMETERY is on the eastern side of the town.

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