BENNETT, Herbert George
| Service Number: | 568 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 March 1915, An original of C Company |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Schnapper Point, Victoria, Australia, 1877 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | South Yarra State Schoolt, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Railway employee |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 29 July 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Clarkson ANZAC Garden of Remembrance, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France), Wanneroo War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 568, 28th Infantry Battalion, An original of C Company | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 568, 28th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 568, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Parents: James Dunn and Sarah BENNETT, Lake Pinjar, Wanneroo, Western Australia.
Herbert was born in Melbourne but must have moved to Western Australia with his family in around 1896 as that was when he started working with the WA Railways. He was about 19 years old at the time. On enlisting he had been a servant of the WA Railways for 19 years and was not young at 38 years of age. At enlistment it was noted he had dark hair turning grey. Herbert served at Gallipoli from 4 September 1915 until the evacuation and was killed in action during the heaviest fighting at Pozieres.
A younger brother, 2018 Pte. James Dunn Bennett, 6th Battalion AIF, had been killed in action at the landing on Gallipoli 25 April 1915, age 21.
A third brother 119 Private Albert Bennett 44th Battalion AIF, returned to Australia 1 June 1919 and was discharged from the AIF 22 August 1919. Bert Bennett died after being discharged in Australia on the 5 January 1920, in the Geraldton Hospital, reportedly from spinal meningitis and is not listed on the Roll of Honour at the Australian War Memorial.