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Military service
Age:
27
Rank:
Major
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Division:
1ST Bn.
Death:
August 5, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XX. C. 10.
Additional information
Son of Captain Ronald V. and Elva I. Bennett, of Sackville, New Brunswick. Husband of Dorothy Janet Bennett of Montreal, QC.
Brother of Lieutenant Henry Harrison Bennett, who died while serving with the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa.
Digital gallery of Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
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Photo of Edwin Ronald Bennett
Both men are recalled in a Globe and Mail "In Memoriam" ads, 2009 August 22 with photos. +++ "In proud but sorrowing memory of our cousins, Major Ronald Bennett, Black Watch (The Royal Highland Regiment of Canada), and his brother Lieutenant Harrison Bennett, Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa, who both laid down their lives for Canada in Normandy, 65 years ago, in August 1944. They are both buried in the Canadian War Cemetery at Bretteville-sur-Laize in Normandy. 'They did not grow old, we that were left grow old/Age has not wearied not the years condemned./At the going down of the sun and in the morning,/ We have remembered them.' - William and Ruth Herridge and Family. " -
Press Clipping
Maj Edwin Robert Bennett obit Montreal Gazette Aug 15, 1944 courtesy of McGill University Archives. -
Press Clipping
From the Montreal Gazette. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery on the road between Caen and Falaise. His brother, Henry Harrison Bennett is buried in the same cemetery but the graves are about 10 rows apart. -
Grave marker
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Grave marker
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Attestation paper
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Circumstances of death
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Letter
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Family Photo
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Memorial
Sackville War Memorial. Sackville NB, Canada. (Photo credit: Captain (Ret'd) E.L.L. Gaudet, CD) -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Bennett Brothers Memorial building located at 10 Salem Street, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
Digital gallery of
Major Edwin Ronald Bennett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 247 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BRETTEVILLE-SUR-LAIZE CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
This cemetery lies on the west side of the main road from Caen to Falaise (route N158) and just north of the village of Cintheaux. Bretteville-sur-Laize is a village and commune in the department of the Calvados, some 16 kilometres south of Caen. The village of Bretteville lies 3 kilometres south-west of the Cemetery. Buried here are those who died during the later stages of the battle of Normandy, the capture of Caen and the thrust southwards (led initially by the 4th Canadian and 1st Polish Armoured Divisions), to close the Falaise Gap, and thus seal off the German divisions fighting desperately to escape being trapped west of the Seine. Almost every unit of Canadian 2nd Corps is represented in the Cemetery. There are about 3,000 allied forces casualties of the Second World War commemorated in this site.
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