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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
1071
Age:
22
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Newfoundland Regiment
Enlistment:
January 20, 1915
Death:
April 14, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Luke A. and Josephine Bennett, of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
Brother of Lance Corporal Hector Bennett, Royal Newfoundland Regiment, killed in action on 14 April 1917.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal William Bennett
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Medals
Distinguished Conduct Medal awarded for Gallantry at Gueudecourt, France, October 12, 1916. -
Monchy-le-Preux
This is the Memorial that now stands at Monchy-le-Preux, France. -
Inscription on Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
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Beaumont-Hamel Memorial
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Commemorative Plaque
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Inscription
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Photo of WILLIAM BENNETT
In memory of the men and women from Newfoundland who went away to war and did not come home. From the Newfoundland Legion magazine “Lest We Forget”. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of WILLIAM BENNETT
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal William Bennett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 13 of the Newfoundland Book of Remembrance.
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