Sergeant William Joseph Benger MM (21 November 1894 – 17 October 1917) was a British First World War flying ace credited with five aerial victories over German Albatros D.V fighters.
By 1903 the family had moved to Ewell, Surrey, as William and his brother Frank entered the Boys School there, while their father was employed as an attendant at Horton Asylum.
He scored his first aerial victory on 25 September 1917, in a win shared with Leslie William Burbidge.
A7271, piloted by Lieutenant Arthur Gilbert Vivian Taylor, which was shot down over Poelcapelle, Belgium, by Theodor Quandt of Jasta 36.
[4] He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial,[2] and on the War Memorial in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Ewell, alongside his brother[5] Lance Sergeant Frank John Benger, 6th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment, KIA 12 April 1917.