Studio portrait of 6706 Corporal (Cpl) Walter Garnet Bennett, 1st Battalion. A bookkeeper prior ...

Accession Number P11410.001
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made 1917-1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Studio portrait of 6706 Corporal (Cpl) Walter Garnet Bennett, 1st Battalion. A bookkeeper prior to enlisting on 2 August 1914, Cpl Bennett embarked for overseas service aboard SS Port Nicholson on 8 November 1916. He reverted to the rank of Private (Pte) on 1 March 1918. Pte Bennett was killed in action in France on 16 April 1918, aged 24 years old.

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