Penniedarling

Last Tuesday I posted this newspaper article about Richard Benson

So... Richard did return home, he grew up, then sometime before 1930 he married Ethel May and they had one son, Victor Ralf, who according to my Aunt Pam, was a very spoiled brat of a boy who sadly died at only 21, see newspaper report below.

Richard died in 1972 aged 68 years


(From trove nla newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald 9 N.S.W. 1842 - 1954 )
Thursday 26 July 1951
Two Killed When Car, Cycle Collided.
Two men were killed yesterday when a car and a motor cycle collided at the intersection of Tennyson Avenue and Eastern Road, Turramurra.
They were;-
James Herbert Pocock, 71, of Sutherland Street, Wahroonga - driver of the car.
Victor Ralph Benson, 21, of Burgoyne Street, Gordon - rider of the motor cycle.
Police said that when the collision occurred, Benson was thrown through the front off-side window of the car and landed on the front seat.
Central District Ambulance took the bodies to the Hornsby District Morgue.
Sergeant J.Thew, of Hornsby Police, is in charge of inquiries.