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I have a report that William Benzing joined the U.K. Navy for WWI under the surname Benson (or Bensen). So he may not have served in France. So Marie, I would definitely search Navy records for William. My great-grandfather, migrated to Canada aged 14 and disembarked as Arthur Evans in 1889...

This is excellent. Elizabeth lived until 1963, 90 years. She was born Elizabeth Tomkins and married Thomas Benzing in Wolverhampton in 1896 after which they moved to Birmingham. She sent her brother Arthur, in Canada, photos of her daughters Ivy and Elsie, and a portrait image of herself...

Benson was a adopted alteration of their surname Benzing during the War, to avoid German association and thereby enlist.

Interested in any information regarding Thomas Benzing, born 1872, who married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Tomkins (perhaps Evans) in July 1896 in Wolverhampton and thereafter resided in Birmingham. I have an image of two of their daughters c1913, Ivy and Elsie Benzing. Particularly interested in...

I have wasted hundred of hours aiming for George and James, whose age I do not know. I suspect George was the eldest, because I know Arthur and James tossed a coin on the docks in Liverpool, before they migrated their separate ways, possibly around 1889, escaping a stepfather they did not like...

The Canadian references for Arthur Evan Evans are all on the Evans Tree: https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/14851561/person/173705365/facts Born 24 April 1875, either in Wales or Birmingham. As I mentioned, the online records don't help, but a photo I.D. of his nieces would. I am...

Agreed.

I am searching for any information regarding an image of two relatives (see attached) taken in Bordersley about 1913. Ivy and Elsie are pictured, the daughters of the sister of my grandfather Arthur Evan Evans. Their mother was called Lizzie (probably short for Elizabeth) and while she may...