BENNETT, Sydney
| Service Number: | 315 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 August 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Petersham, New South Wales, Australia, 12 October 1886 |
| Home Town: | Peakhurst, Hurstville, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Peakhurst Public School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 21 September 1917, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France) |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 315, 4th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 315, 4th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 315, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 7 Aug 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 315, 4th Infantry Battalion, The August Offensive - Lone Pine, Suvla Bay, Sari Bair, The Nek and Hill 60 - Gallipoli, GSW hand, BW back | |
| 6 May 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 315, 4th Infantry Battalion, Bullecourt (Second), Buried by shell |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
His brother, Pte Percy Bennett 17th Battalion AIF, died on 7 August 1916, of wounds received at Pozieres, France, aged 26.
Sydney Bennett served at the Anzac Landing and was seriously wounded at Lone Pine, Gallipoli, then invalided to England where he married Sister Coupe of the Surrey Sanitarium on 9 March 1917.
Sidney was killed in Belgium less than six months after his wedding. He was a runner for a reconnaissance party and when killed, near the Hooge-Zillebeke line at Ypres in Belgium. His death is mentioned in the 4th Battalion war diary. Somehow his name is not on the Menin Gate Memorial, but the Villers Bretonneux Memorial in France.
His new bride, Elizabeth Ellen Coupe, died in England during 1918, aged 33, so his medals were sent to his father.
On the Roll of Honour circulars for the brothers, it was stated “they came from an old fighting family, their grandfather and great grandfather had fought in the Battle of Waterloo, the Crimean War, and the Indian Mutiny."
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