Benjamin ABBOTT

202180, Lance Corporal. b. 1897, Clayton d. 14th September 1916 (aged 19).

Benjamin grew up in Pudsey. The 1911 census shows that aged 15 he was a servant farm labourer at the Manor House, Whiston in Rotherham, employed by John Bagshaw.

He enlisted at Attercliffe, Sheffield into the 1st/4^th (Hallamshire) battn York & Lancaster Regiment.

Benjamin was killed on 14 Sept 1916 aged 20 at the battle of Flers – Courcelette in the Somme offensive.

He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.

Benjamin is also remembered on the memorial in Whiston St. Mary Magdalen Church. http://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/195805-whiston-st-mary-magdalene-church-memorial/