Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Tom William Bland a Coal Porter, born 1862 in Empingham, Rutland and his wife Eliza, born 1863 in Oakham, Rutland. Benjamin was born in 1897 in Oakham, Rutland, his siblings were Frederick, born 1888, Annie, born 1893, Miriam, born 1895 and John Edward, born 1900, all his siblings were born in Oakham, Rutland, in March 1901 the family home was at Melton Road, Park Lane, Oakham, Rutland in the Ecclesiastical Parish of Oakham, All Saints. In April 1911 Benjamin was employed as a Butchers Errand Boy and was residing in the family home at Deans Street, Oakham, Rutland, together with his parents and siblings, John and Charles Henry, born 1902 in Oakham, Rutland.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Benjamin BLAND
Private 25th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) Army no. 44905. He was formerly with the Leicestershire Regiment Army no. 3910
He died of his wounds on 28 April 1918. He was 21.
He was the son of Tom William and Eliza Bland, 17 Deans Street, Oakham.
He is buried in grave V F 6 La Clytte Military Cemetery
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