BENSTEAD, Wallace George

Bari War Cemetery, ItalyCredit: Unknown

Driver
Royal Army Service Corps

Wallace was born on the 3rd of June 1902 in Peterborough to John Herbert & Elizabeth (nee SMITH) BENSTEAD. He married Laura May HINTON in 1925 at Hampstead in London & they lived at "Daveston", Clatterford Road in Carisbrooke. Before the War, Wallace was the Manager of Woolworth’s Newport Branch & served in the Home Guard.

Wallace, aged 42, was killed by a gunshot wound to the abdomen on the 28th of June 1944 & originally buried at Barletta Civil Cemetery by the 18th Graves Registration Unit. Wallace was later exhumed & reburied in the Bari War Cemetery in Italy on the 21st September 1944.

Wallace rests beneath a Commission Headstone, bearing the Family Inscription: “RESTING WHERE NO SHADOWS FALL LOVED AND REMEMBERED BY US ALL” & alongside over 2,000 of his Second World War comrades.

Wallace is also remembered on the Carisbrooke & Newport Borough War Memorials.

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CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.