The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private A Bennett

Private Albert BENNETT, G/5973, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders, France, death presumed on or after 3rd July 1916, age 45.

Born Bermondsey, Surrey, son of the late George and Jane Bennett.

23rd September 1896, Lambeth, St John the Divine, Kennington, marriage of Albert Bennett, age 25, bachelor, tobacconist, 94 Wyndham Road, Camberwell, son of George Henry Bennett, patent leather dresser, (deceased) & Ada Emily Smith, age 29, spinster, 30 Wyndham Road, Camberwell, daughter of Alfred John Smith, builder, (deceased).

Children - Walter George Bennett, born 28th June 1899, Camberwell; Henry Edwin Bennett, born 4th January 1901, Camberwell; Frederick Arthur Bennett, born 7th February 1902, Tottenham; William Gordon Bennett, born 2nd June 1906, Southwark; Ada Emily Bennett, born 12th July 1908, Greenwich.

1911 Census - 80 Reculver Road, Rotherhithe, SE - Albert Bennett, head, age 40, married, hairdresser, own account, born Bermondsey; Ada Emily Bennett, wife, age 42, married 15 years, 8 children, 7 still alive, born St Luke's; Albert Bennett, son age 13, school, born Camberwell; Charles Bennett, son, age 12, school, born Camberwell; Walter George Bennett, son, age 11, school, born Camberwell; Henry Edwin Bennett, son, age 10, school, born Camberwell; Frederick Arthur Bennett, son, age 9, school, born Tottenham; William Gordon Bennett, son, age 4, school, born Southwark; Ada Emily Bennett, daughter, age 2, born Deptford.

Enlisted Deptford, Kent, age 36, height 5ft 2½ inches, weight 135lbs, married with 5 children. Resided 80 Reculver Road, Deptford, Kent / 50, Brockill Crescent, Brockley, London.. Formerly hairdresser.

Home 15th March 1915 to 17th March 1916; BEF 18th March 1916 to 3rd July 1916.

15th March 1915, enlisted, & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th March 1915, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th March 1916, posted BEF & 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd July 1916, posted missing.

12th March 1917, provisional pension of 20/6 awarded to widow & three children

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

This page was last updated on 28-Dec-2016.