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Albert Edward "Bill" Benson
Royal Navy HMS Formidable
Albert (aka Bill) Benson was my Uncle, he died before I was born. I believe he sailed aboard HMS Formidable in 1945 when it visited Sydney we have photos of Sydney Harbour and Wooloomooloo taken by him. My Mother says he changed his birth certificate to read 1924 (instead of 1926) so he could join the Navy and leave home. He must have visited Portsmouth, Aden, Colombo, Port Said and Suez, we have photos of all those places.
He then went to Palestine during the period 1946-1948 and served in the Palestine Police, his photo album includes pictures of all the Jewish blockade runners including 'Exodus'. He returned to the UK aboard 'Empress of Australia' in 1948, my father John Hogsden was also aboard the same ship returning to the UK after serving in the Palestine Police. Bill Benson then joined the Malay Police to fight the communists in Malaya during the uprising. He was shot in an ambush and was buried at Gods Little Acre cemetery in Batu Gajah in 1952.
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