BENNETT,+J.+W.

Bennett, James William, Private, 602276, 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Born Glossop, Derbyshire Enlisted Sarnia, Ontario, Canada Killed in action between 1st and 2nd October 1916 aged 27 Son of Mrs. Mary Bennett, of Silk St., Glossop, England; husband of Emily Bennett, of 474, Davis St., Sarnia, Ontario. Buried in Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt, II, D, 10

1911 Census A bleachworks labourer Son of Ezra, a Council labourer, and Mary Ann Bennett, of 28a, Cross Cliffe, Glossop, Derbyshire

Canadian Army Service records information: James was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, on the 15th February, 1890. He enlisted in Sarnia, Ontario, 27th January, 1915 stating his occupation as an oiler aboard a steamship, and his next of kin as his wife, Emily Bennett, of 176, Ontario Street, Sarnia, Ontario. He was five feet four and a half inches in height, had a dark complexion, grey eyes and dark hair, and he was a Roman Catholic.


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