John Benton's father

John Benton's father was an army sergeant, and the father of John and Chris Benton.

Biography
John always thought that his father preferred Chris to him, as Chris was always given what John had to fight for. John's lingering desire to be like his father was what led him to a career with the military, although he never gained his father's approval.

Benton fought in World War II. When he returned to Bolton on embarkation leave during 1944, Chris died in an accident that Benton blamed John for. Shortly afterwards, Benton was killed by a grenade in Normandy. According to John, he was blown into so many pieces that not enough was found of his body to give him a decent burial.

When John stopped to leave a flower at the grave of Chris on a mission for the army, he became trapped in a nightmare world where past and present were one, and experienced his past again — seeing the ghosts of his father, mother and brother, until he made peace withhimself and was able to escape. (HOMEVID: Wartime)

Behind the scenes

 * Benton is never referred to by a first name.
 * It is perhaps best left to personal preference as to whether Benton's wife was pregnant with her third child at the time of his death, or if she remarried at some point afterwards.