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Name: BENN, Jack Musson
Nee: son of Edward Hugh and Jane Ethel Benn, bro of Kathleen Joan Benn and Margaret 'Peggy' Frampton
Birth Date: 3 Sep 1910 Crawley, Sussex
Death Date: 25 Jan 1992 S. Africa
First Date: 1930
Last Date: 1964
Profession: Farmer
Area: Kinangop
Married: In Kensington 8 Dec 1947 Elizabeth Jemima Mary Cust b. 1926 Eton (related to Baron Brownlow)
Children: Anthony Christopher (1948); Michael Robert (1950); one dau.
Book Reference: Sitrep 2, Frampton, Hut, Burke, Wolseley-Lewis
School: Harrow
General Information:
Wolseley-Lewis - The Benns went to Somerset West in South Africa. While ploughing his land on the Kinangop Jack had fallen off his tractor and the plough had taken his leg off. This had been a great blow to them because both he and Jemima were great tennis players and dancers. When Jack died in South Africa, Jemima returned to England. She had been born a Cust.
Frampton - 1948 - had an accident with a caterpillar tractor and his leg was torn off. Retired to S. Africa
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 189).
Ancestry passsenger lists - in 1913 went from Bahia to England with mother Jane Ethel Benn, b. 1881, and sister Joan K. aged 5 and sister C. Margaret aged 4