Benjamin Westphal

Second Lieutenant Benjamin Augustus Westphal was an officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 11 May 1893, at Westmoreland, Jamaica,"Jamaica, Civil Registration, 1880-1999," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XNW5-GHW : accessed 06 Jan 2014), Augustus Westphal in entry for Benjamin, 1893. the son of German-born Augustus, who became the island's bishop in 1903,The American-German Review, Volumes 6-7, 1939, p. 38. and Georgine Westphal (née Roming).
Westphal received his education at Fulneck School and studied history at Manchester University, where he was a 2nd Class Hons. He enlisted in 1914, in the 21st Battalion (4th Public Schools) of the Royal Fusiliers. In 1916, Westphal obtained his commission, as a second lieutenant in the 18th Battalion, The Manchester Regiment. He died on 23 April 1917, at Vancourt during the Arras Offensive on the Western Front.Manchester University Roll of Service, p. 79. His brother, Richard, had been killed in May 1916.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Arras Memorial.
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==References==
*Westphal, Benjamin Augustus, cwgc.org. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
Category:1893 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:Jamaican military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Arras Memorial
Category:Second Lieutenants