Dennis Thomas Beynon – Royal Engineers

Sapper Dennis Thomas Beynon – Royal Engineers

Early Life

Dennis Thomas Beynon was born in 1925 at Swansea, the son of Horace Beynon and Florence Beynon of Caereithin, Swansea. No surviving civilian records shed further light on his early life, and his childhood remains largely undocumented in the surviving official sources.

Military Service

Dennis served as a Sapper with the Royal Engineers, one of the most versatile and essential corps of the British Army. Royal Engineers carried out construction, demolition, bridging, mine clearance, and technical support across every theatre of the war. Even without detailed personal records, his rank places him among the thousands of young men whose engineering skills underpinned the Army’s operations.

Dennis Thomas Beynon
Morriston Cemetery
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Death and Burial

Dennis died on 2 August 1945, his passing marking the first military death recorded after the end of the Second World War. He was laid to rest at Morriston Cemetery, where his grave stands at the beginning of the post‑war section of the 1945 burials.