Eric Bensinger

Lieutenant Eric Sigmund Bensinger was an English officer of the British Army who died during the Second World War.
He was born on 7 January 1909,Ancestry.com. 1939 England and Wales Register [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. in Hendon, the son of German-born parents Siegfried Leopold and Elise Bensinger (née Henschel). Bensinger attended St Paul's before entering Wadham College as a classical scholar in 1926.The Times (44461), p. 14: "University News". 22 December 1926. He was responsible for the translation of a number of books, including The Seven Soviet Arts by Kurt London.The Times (47732), p. 22: "Some New Books". 9 July 1937.
Bensinger was commissioned on 6 June 1942, in the 1st Buckinghamshire Battalion, The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.The London Gazette (35600), p. 2702. 19 June 1942, thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved 13 September 2015. He was later attached to the 2nd Hampshires, and served with it in the North African Campaign. Aged 34, Bensinger died on 16 March 1943. He had married in 1936 to Raymonde Maisel.
He is buried in Beja War Cemetery, Tunisia.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Bensinger, Eric Sigmund, cwgc.org. Retrieved 13 September 2015.
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