12268 Private Benjamin Rimmer of the 11th Battalion, King's (Liverpool) Regiment, died of wounds on the 23rd December 1917. He was born in Kirkdale, Liverpool, and enlisted at Seaforth. He was a resident of Liverpool.
Benjamin's number indicates that he was an early volunteer for King and Country, probably joining the 11th King's (the regiment's first service battalion) in early to mid August 1914. He first arrived overseas on the 19th May 1915.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission gives no additional details about this man, but he was possibly the same Benjamin Rimmer whose birth was registered in the September quarter of 1892 and who would therefore have been 25 years old at the time of his death. He is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
Sources:
Ancestry.co.uk (MIC, 1901 census)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War
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