872964 Corporal Benjamin Sidney George Costin
Number: 872964
Company: C
Platoon: -
Section: -
Wounded In Action
Returned Across River
T & E Book: 11/78
Para Course: K57
Life Story:
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872964 Corporal Benjamin Sidney George ‘Ben’ Costin was born on 28th February 1918 to
Sidney Edward and Isabelle Costin of 32 Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich, London. On 16th May 1918 he was
baptised
at his local church of St Andrew and St Michael, Tunnel Avenue, Greenwich, Middlesex, England.
In February 1927 Benjamin was a pupil at Intermediate School Swaffield Road, Wandsworth.
On the 3rd January 1938 he enlisted into
the Royal Artillery. When war was declared, he was serving with a unit of the Royal Horse Artillery in the Middle
East. Volunteered for Airborne Forces whilst serving with a Royal Horse Artillery unit, with
the rank of Gunner, and officially posted to the Army Air Corps 30th July 1943. Assigned to C Company, 11th
Parachute Battalion, he did his Parachute Course No. 57 at Ramat David, Palestine, from 01 to 11 August 1943 and fought at the Battle of Arnhem.
Ben Costin died in Blackpool on the 31st May 1994.