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Percy BENNETT

Regimental number402
SchoolPeakhurst Public School, New South Wales
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationBus driver
AddressForest Road, Peakhurst, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation25
Next of kinMother, Mrs Eliza Ann Bennett, Forest Road, Peakhurst, New South Wales
Previous military serviceServed in AN&MEF, New Guinea, 1914.
Enlistment date16 March 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name17th Battalion, A Company
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/34/1
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board Transport A32 Themistocles on 12 May 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll17th Battalion
Other details from Roll of Honour CircularDied in Wandsworth Hospital, London; buried in Wandsworth Cemetery. His great-grandfather fought at Waterloo; his grandfather fought in the Crimean War and in the Indian Mutiny.
FateDied of wounds 7 August 1916
Place of death or woundingPozieres, France
Date of death7 August 1916
Age at death28
Age at death from cemetery records26
Place of burialWandsworth Cemetery (Aust. 27), London
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
82
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: Frederick Robert and Eliza Ann BENNETT, "Windsor", Forest Road, Peakhurst, New South Wales

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