Claude Corderoy BENSON MID

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BENSON, Claude Corderoy

Service Numbers:	2332, N347504
Enlisted:	30 July 1942
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	5 Base Ordnance Depot
Born:	Armidale, New South Wales, Australia, 18 August 1894
Home Town:	Kogarah, Sydney, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Tailor
Died:	Illness, 113th Military Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 5 October 1943, aged 49 years
Cemetery:	Sydney War Cemetery, Rookwood, New South Wales Burial reference: - Plot N, Row B, Grave 8, Sydney. Personal Inscription: - HE HATH FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE".
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial

World War 1 Service

20 Aug 1915:	Involvement Private, 2332, 13th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: ''
20 Aug 1915:	Embarked Private, 2332, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Sydney

World War 2 Service

30 Jul 1942:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, N347504
5 Oct 1943:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Sergeant, N347504, 5 Base Ordnance Depot

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Biography contributed by Dianne Black

Parents: - Hayward James Benson and Emily Harriett Corderoy married 1880, Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia,

Wife: - Helen Arthur Young married 1913, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia

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