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Private Benjamin SAVILLE, 205496, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (formerly West Yorkshire Regiment, Service No.34923 / Northumberland Fusiliers, Service No.315738), killed in action, Flanders France, 31st July 1917,  age 39.

Born Leeds, Yorkshire.

4th May 1901, St Peter, Hunslet Moor, Yorkshire, Benjamin Saville, age 24, bachelor, labourer, 19 Purton? Street, father Samuel Saville, labourer, married Elizabeth Duffy, age 21, spinster, 19 Purton? Street, father Thomas William Duffy, deceased, Patent Agent.

Children - Elizabeth Saville,  born 7th December 1902; Norman Saville, born 30th June 1905; Mabel Saville, born 24th April 1909.

1911 Census - 11 Frederick Street, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire - Benjamin Saville, head, age 34, married, Engineers labourer, tin works, worker, born Leeds; Elizabeth Saville, wife, age 31, married 10 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Liverpool; Elizabeth Saville, daughter, age 8, born Leeds; Norman Saville, son, age 5, born Leeds; Mabel Saville, daughter, age 1, born Leeds.

Enlisted Leeds, Yorkshire. Resided 8, Borough Street, Dewsbury Road, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Commemorated at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Panel 45 and 47, Belgium.