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John Martin Benson

Captain

Service No. Unknown

Age 26

Died on 27 May 1918

Northumberland Fusiliers

SOISSONS MEMORIAL

Aisne, France

Son of John and Jeanie Law Martin Benson, of Marionville, Airdrie. Educated at Airdrie Academy and St. Salvators, St. Andrew's, and afterwards at Fettes and Merton College, Oxford. Enlisted in Glasgow Highlanders, Sept., 1914. Gazetted to Highland Light Inf, Oct., 1915. Twice previously wounded.

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