Benjamin Cohen

Serjeant Benjamin Cohen was an English soldier of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born in 1888, at West Derby, the son of Polish-born tailor Michael and Rebecca Cohen, local to the area. At the time of the 1911 Census, the Cohen family were residing at 6 Great Orford Street, Liverpool.
Cohen died on 20 September 1917, on the opening day of the Battle of the Menin Road Ridge, while serving on the Western Front with the 1/5th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). He was one of more than 150 casualties sustained by the battalion, amounting to 45 killed, 119 wounded, and 7 missing.Wyrall, Everard (1935/2002), The History of the King's Regiment (Liverpool) 1914–19, p. 520.
He has no known grave and is commemorated by the Tyne Cot Memorial.
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==References==
*Ancestry.co.uk.
*Cohen, Benjamin, cwgc.org. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
Category:1888 births
Category:1917 deaths
Category:British military personnel
Category:British Army
Category:British people of Jewish descent
Category:British people of Polish descent
Category:British people of Russian descent
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Tyne Cot Memorial
Category:Sergeants