Sergeant Benjamin Birchenhough
453244 Canadian Army 2nd Central Ontario Regiment
Killed in Action 13th June 1916, aged 35
Possibly lived at 5 Daneshouse Road
Commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium
Commemorated on the Hanover Chapel Memorial
Commemorated in the Canadian Book of Remembrance page 54
Burnley Express 22nd July 1916

His papers survive and he enlisted into the 3rd Militia Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment number 7463 in 1897 aged 17, he then transferred into the regular army in 1898 as 13391, Private, Army Service Corps and again transferred into the East Lancashire Regiment number 5532 serving with the regiment until December 1904 when he transferred to the Army Reserve. Once out of his reserve comittment it would appear he emigrated to Canada.
He earned his Africa GS Medal on attachment with the 9th Somali Camel Corps with whom he served from December 1903 until October 1904.
(courtesy of Dave Ingham)