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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 13216" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Benham </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Jack Elkan David </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>138 Squadron (R.A.F.(A.A.F.)) </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Wing Commander </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>90447 </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>28th January 1942 </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>41 </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Runnymede Memorial,Surrey Panel 73 </em></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong> </li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 23.7.1900 (Jack Elkan David Benjamin)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of Lionel D. and Mabel P. Benham,Marylebone,London</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>changed name from Benjamin Thomason 1914-18 (?)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>educated Haileybury College,Hertfordshire</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>changed name to Benham 1925</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Squadron Leader,Balloon Branch 24.8.1939</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Chief Instructor,Central Landing School 1940</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>138 Squadron</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>aircrew</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>SOE Op. Musjide,Belgium</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Whitley Z6728</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>ditched 20 miles off English coast </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>change of name 1925</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em></em><span style="font-family: 'serif'">I</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">JACK ELKAN DAVID BENHAM,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of 11,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">a</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Bentinck-mansions,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Bentinck-street,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> in the</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">county</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> London,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> a</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> natural</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> born</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> British</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> subject,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">heretofore called</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> known</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> by the</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> name</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Jack</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">Elkan David Benjamin, hereby give notice,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> that</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> 1</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">have renounced</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> abandoned</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> the'name</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Jack</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">Elkan David Benjamin</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> that</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> I</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> have assumed</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> intend</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> henceforth</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> on all</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> occasions whatsoever</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> at all</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> times</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> to</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> sign</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and use and to be</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> called</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> known</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> by the</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> name</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Jack</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Elkan</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> David</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">Benham</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> in</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> lieu</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of and in</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> substitution</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> for my</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">former</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> name</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Jack</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Elkan</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> David Benjamin;</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> I</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> also</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> hereby give notice,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> that</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> such change</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> name</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> is</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> formally declared</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> evidenced</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> by a</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">deed</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> poll under</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> my</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> hand</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> seal</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> dated</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> the</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> 16th</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">day</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> June,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> one</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> thousand</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> nine</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> hundred</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">twenty-five,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> duly executed</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> attested,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> that</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">such</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> deed poll</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> was</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> enrolled</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> in the</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Central</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Office</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> the</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Supreme Court</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Judicature</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> on the</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> 17th</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">day</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> June,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> one</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> thousand nine hundred</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">twenty-five</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> Da-ted</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> this</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> 17th</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> day</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> of</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> June,</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> one</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">thousand</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> nine</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> hundred</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> and</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> twenty-five.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'">(125)</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'serif'"> J. E. D.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> BENHAM</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Robertson, post: 13216, member: 1"] [LIST] [*][B]SURNAME[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Benham [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]FORENAME[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Jack Elkan David [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]UNIT[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]138 Squadron (R.A.F.(A.A.F.)) [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]RANK[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Wing Commander [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]NUMBER[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]90447 [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]DATE OF DEATH[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]28th January 1942 [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]AGE[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]41 [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]GRAVESITE[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]Runnymede Memorial,Surrey Panel 73 [/I][/INDENT] [LIST] [*][B]ADDITIONAL INFORMATION[/B] [/LIST] [INDENT][I]born 23.7.1900 (Jack Elkan David Benjamin) son of Lionel D. and Mabel P. Benham,Marylebone,London changed name from Benjamin Thomason 1914-18 (?) educated Haileybury College,Hertfordshire changed name to Benham 1925 Squadron Leader,Balloon Branch 24.8.1939 Chief Instructor,Central Landing School 1940 138 Squadron aircrew SOE Op. Musjide,Belgium Whitley Z6728 ditched 20 miles off English coast change of name 1925 [/I][FONT=serif]I[/FONT] [FONT=serif]JACK ELKAN DAVID BENHAM,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of 11,[/FONT] [FONT=serif]a[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Bentinck-mansions,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Bentinck-street,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] in the[/FONT] [FONT=serif]county[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] London,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] a[/FONT] [FONT=serif] natural[/FONT] [FONT=serif] born[/FONT] [FONT=serif] British[/FONT] [FONT=serif] subject,[/FONT] [FONT=serif]heretofore called[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] known[/FONT] [FONT=serif] by the[/FONT] [FONT=serif] name[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Jack[/FONT] [FONT=serif]Elkan David Benjamin, hereby give notice,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] that[/FONT] [FONT=serif] 1[/FONT] [FONT=serif]have renounced[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] abandoned[/FONT] [FONT=serif] the'name[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Jack[/FONT] [FONT=serif]Elkan David Benjamin[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] that[/FONT] [FONT=serif] I[/FONT] [FONT=serif] have assumed[/FONT] [FONT=serif]and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] intend[/FONT] [FONT=serif] henceforth[/FONT] [FONT=serif] on all[/FONT] [FONT=serif] occasions whatsoever[/FONT] [FONT=serif]and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] at all[/FONT] [FONT=serif] times[/FONT] [FONT=serif] to[/FONT] [FONT=serif] sign[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and use and to be[/FONT] [FONT=serif] called[/FONT] [FONT=serif]and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] known[/FONT] [FONT=serif] by the[/FONT] [FONT=serif] name[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Jack[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Elkan[/FONT] [FONT=serif] David[/FONT] [FONT=serif]Benham[/FONT] [FONT=serif] in[/FONT] [FONT=serif] lieu[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of and in[/FONT] [FONT=serif] substitution[/FONT] [FONT=serif] for my[/FONT] [FONT=serif]former[/FONT] [FONT=serif] name[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Jack[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Elkan[/FONT] [FONT=serif] David Benjamin;[/FONT] [FONT=serif]and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] I[/FONT] [FONT=serif] also[/FONT] [FONT=serif] hereby give notice,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] that[/FONT] [FONT=serif] such change[/FONT] [FONT=serif]of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] name[/FONT] [FONT=serif] is[/FONT] [FONT=serif] formally declared[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] evidenced[/FONT] [FONT=serif] by a[/FONT] [FONT=serif]deed[/FONT] [FONT=serif] poll under[/FONT] [FONT=serif] my[/FONT] [FONT=serif] hand[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] seal[/FONT] [FONT=serif] dated[/FONT] [FONT=serif] the[/FONT] [FONT=serif] 16th[/FONT] [FONT=serif]day[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] June,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] one[/FONT] [FONT=serif] thousand[/FONT] [FONT=serif] nine[/FONT] [FONT=serif] hundred[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif]twenty-five,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] duly executed[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] attested,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] that[/FONT] [FONT=serif]such[/FONT] [FONT=serif] deed poll[/FONT] [FONT=serif] was[/FONT] [FONT=serif] enrolled[/FONT] [FONT=serif] in the[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Central[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Office[/FONT] [FONT=serif]of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] the[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Supreme Court[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] Judicature[/FONT] [FONT=serif] on the[/FONT] [FONT=serif] 17th[/FONT] [FONT=serif]day[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] June,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] one[/FONT] [FONT=serif] thousand nine hundred[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif]twenty-five [/FONT] [FONT=serif] Da-ted[/FONT] [FONT=serif] this[/FONT] [FONT=serif] 17th[/FONT] [FONT=serif] day[/FONT] [FONT=serif] of[/FONT] [FONT=serif] June,[/FONT] [FONT=serif] one[/FONT] [FONT=serif]thousand[/FONT] [FONT=serif] nine[/FONT] [FONT=serif] hundred[/FONT] [FONT=serif] and[/FONT] [FONT=serif] twenty-five.[/FONT] [FONT=serif](125)[/FONT] [FONT=serif] J. E. D.[/FONT] BENHAM [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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