Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Great War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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204781

Cpl. Oliver Bennett

12th Battery

from:

(d.21st Oct 1914)

HOLT, St ANDREW THE APOSTLE, WAR MEMORIAL

We pray you remember before God, Charles Henry Steer and Oliver Bennett former members of the choir who lost their lives fighting for King & Country in the Great War 1914. RJ.D.

BENNETT, Oliver Corporal 32124. 12th Battery Royal Field Artillery. Killed in action in France & Flanders on 21st October 1914. Aged 25. Born at North Walsham. Enlisted Norwich. Son of William and Rebecca Bennett, of Holt, Norfolk, Norwich, Norfolk. One of two choir members commemorated on the stain glass window in St Andrew the Aposlte church. Buried in Harlebeke New British Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Ref. XVI. A. 8.

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