Private John Erol Benson (1503, 12th Battalion) was a farmer from Bellerive, Tasmania. He suffered gunshot wounds to his right knee at Gallipoli on 7 August 1915. John was transferred to No 21 General Hospital, Alexandria, but died of his wounds on 3 September 1915. John is buried in the Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt. His mother wrote that he was 17 years of age and that an officer of his regiment wrote John was “as plucky as could be, never funked his duty and died bravely”. John’s cousins, Captain Thomas Kennedy Westbrook and Private Victor Gordon Westbrook, both died on the Western Front in 1917.