Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Board / Plaque / Tablet
- District
- Salisbury
- Town
- Coombe Bissett
- County
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- Non-Combat Deaths, First World War (1914-1918)
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 23892
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Current location
ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS CHURCH
Coombe Bissett
Salisbury
Wiltshire
England
OS Grid Ref: SU 10808 26324
Denomination: Church of England
- Description
- NOWEY HEADED BRASS PLAQUE. CROSS AND CROSSED FLAGS OF UK AND CANADA AT TOP.
- Inscription
- IN MEMORY OF/MAJOR GENERAL SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM BENSON K.C.B./COLONEL 21ST. (EMPRESS OF INDIA'S) LANCERS/HONORARY COLONEL - 19TH LINCOLN REGIMENT (CANADA)/HONORARY COLONEL - 106TH WINNIPEG LIGHT INFANTRY/CHURCHWARDEN OF THIS PARISH//BORN 2ND AUGUST 1849 - DIED ON DUTY IN CANADA 20TH AUGUST 1916/+ PRO PATRIA +/ALSO OF/CAROLINE,/WIDOW OF ABOVE/WHO DIED 8TH FEBRUARY 1924
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Benson, Sir F
See details - Commemorations
- Non-Combat Deaths
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: rank,year died,regiment,place of death,forename,decorations
Order of information: Undefined - First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 0
Served and returned: 0
Died: 0
Exact count: no
Information shown: Undefined
Order of information: Undefined
- Non-Combat Deaths
- Components
- Plaque
Measurements: Undefined
Materials: Brass
- Plaque
- Listing information
- This memorial is not currently listed. Find out how to nominate this memorial for inclusion on the National Heritage List for England
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Maj Gen Sir F Benson
- WMO ID: 100233
- Condition: Good [last updated on 30-06-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A
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