Employed at the Silvertown Brunner Mond works and killed in the 1917 Silvertown explosion. .
, "There appears to be a connection between Walter Mauger and another Brunner Mond employee who died in the explosion, Sidney Joseph Benstead. Mauger was born in Guernsey, Channel Islands, as was Sidney's mother, Julia. The two men, both in their mid twenties, were living at the same address, 26 Lindon/Liddon Road, Plaistow, when they died."
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Sidney Joseph Benstead
Probably erected no more than an year or so after the explosion, this monumen...
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