Private Benjamin Dent

Army Number: 13767

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Mrs Martha Barker, of 8/6, Porter Street, Sheffield.He was born anf lived at Sheffield.Hewas a colliery Labourer prior to enlisting 31st August 1914 at Derby.He went France 9th February<ary 1915 and was Killed in action, 12th March 1915, age 18, during the German counter-attack at Neuve Chapelle, France.His brother Rifleman George Alfred Dent King’s Royal Rifel >Corps also fell in the great war.

Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, France. Panel 26 and 27.

He id allso commemorated Sheffield City Roll of honour (City Hall and local studiesw library ) Sheffield.