Griffiths, Benjamin Francis
Regiment: York and Lancaster Regiment
Rank: Lance Corporal
Service No: 9048
Boer War service: 19 Dec 1901 to 23 Sept 1902
Date of enlistment: 15 Sept 1900
Date of discharge: 14 Sept 1906
Reason for discharge: Termination of Engagement
Other information: Benjamin re-enlisted in 1914 and served in WW1 between 1914 and 1916 – more information can be found on our Great War site.
Born: 17 April 1883 in Whitchurch, Shropshire and baptised 25 May the same year in St. Alkmund’s Parish Church.
Family: He was the third of four children born to Robert Griffiths, a bricklayer, and his wife Mary Ann. He married Edith Ellen Cutts in 1906 in Liverpool, Lancashire and together they had one child, Mary Frances. He married Lily Drayton in 1915 in Middlesbrough, Yorkshire; no children can be traced for this marriage.
Residence: In 1891 his family were living in Elliot’s Yard, High Street, Whitchurch; by 1901 they had moved to 5 Fraser Mount, Stoney Rock, Leeds, Yorkshire.
Employment: He was a bricklayer when he enlisted
Died: In 1945 in Cleveland, Yorkshire, aged 62 and buried 18 June that year
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