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Company Serjeant Major WILLIAM EDWIN BENNETT

Service Number: 5468
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

7th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 03 April 1916

Age 38 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

V. C. 32A.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bennett; husband of Beatrice Mary Bennett, of 33, Hills Lane, Shrewsbury. Native of Coalbrookdale, Salop. After 19 years' continuous service.
  • Personal Inscription HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY HIS SOUL TO GOD ETERNAL REST GIVE UNTO HIM O LORD
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