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John Benson was one of the first members of the Ffestiniog Railway Society (joining in 1955) and with reorganisation of the membership list early on in the life of the Society, and a name beginning with B, he ended up with annual membership number 5. He was born at Burghill in Herefordshire and at 17 years of age was called up for National Service which was then compulsory and was sent to The Royal Army Pay Corps (RAPC). He made the army his career and retired in 1977 with the rank of Sergeant Major/WO1. In his army career he went from Devizes to Singapore, Nepal, UK for additional training, Germany with the Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry as paymaster, back to Pontefract then via Edinburgh to Donington from where he retired. He is seen here with Bhuvan Bahadur Pradhan, the General Manager of the Janakpur Railway, Nepal, in August 1968. Photo credit: Mark Temple
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