Name
Henry (Harry) Bennett
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/10/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
2764
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONSDALE CEMETERY, AUTHUILLE
VII. A. 6.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of John and Sarah Bennett, of Shaw St., Ruddington, Notts.
His parents married 1878 in the Nottingham district. Sarah died 1923 aged 75; John died 1935 aged 79; both in the Basford, Notts, district.
Henry was born 21 April 1891 in Ruddington, and baptised there 20 November 1892. He resided in Watford.
On the 1901 Census, aged 9 he lived in Ruddington, with his parents and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, a gardener aged 19, he was a boarder in Lincoln.
Recorded as living in Watford when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hertford; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, his qualifying date being 10 July 1915, and was killed in action.
Unfortunately, Henry’s Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Son of John and Sarah (nee WILSON) BENNETT of Ruddington, Notts.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
