1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance

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benjamin Schofield

Contributed by: Neil Wilson, on 2008-11-10

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First Namebenjamin
SurnameSchofield
Year of Birth1892
Year of Death1965
RegimentCheshire Regiment
Place of Wartime ResidenceStockport, Somerset

benjamin's Story

My great grandfather Lance Corpral Ben Schofield, no. 9594, joined the Cheshires in 1911 and was captured by the Germans on the 8th of May 1915. He was a prisioner at the Merseburg p.o.w. camp untill he was repatriated on the 9th of April 1919.

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