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Military service
Service number:
602276
Age:
26
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)
Birth:
February 15, 1890
Enlistment:
Sarnia, Ontario
Death:
October 1, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. D. IO.
Additional information
Son of Mrs. Mary Bennett, of Silk St., Glossop, England; husband of Emily Bennett, of 474, Davis St., Sarnia, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private James William Bennett
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Photo of James William Bennett
Enlisted with the 34th Battalion in January 1915. Transferred to the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1916. Reported missing for one year. Then reported killed in action, October 1, 1915. -
Circumstances of Death
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bell to Bernaquez. Mircoform Sequence 8; Volume Number 31829_B016718; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 152 Page 463 of 670 -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press September 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Private James William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Private James William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Private James William Bennett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 53 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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