sentences:  Prior to becoming a professional footballer, Benfield served in the Leicestershire Regiment.As of 1914, he was living in Leicester with his wife Elsie.After the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Benfield re-enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment and was serving as a sergeant when he was shot by a sniper in the area of Équancourt and Heudicourt, Somme on 11 September 1918, during the Hundred Days Offensive.