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Pte. James West Bennett
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.1st Jul 1916)
James Bennett was born in South Shields, son of Thomas and Eleanor Bennett who lived at 67, Windsor St., Princes Park, Liverpool after the war. James died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, he was 25 years old and is buried in Euston Road Cemetery, Colincamps. His mother requested the inscription for his headstone 'Not my will but thine be done'