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BENTLEY, Edgar
Personal Details
| Service Number: | 3403 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 48th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Parkerville, Mundaring, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Parkerville Home School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Woodcutter |
| Died: | Illness, France, 22 December 1917, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manancourt Personal Inscription FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT, Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Etricourt-Manancourt, Peronne, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Parkerville Children's Home Roll of Honor |
Service History
World War 1 Service
| 1 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 3403, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
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| 1 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 3403, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Benalla, Fremantle | |
| 22 Dec 1917: | Involvement Private, 3403, 48th Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3403 awm_unit: 48 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1917-12-22 | |
| Date unknown: | Honoured Military Medal |
Personal Stories
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
His guardian was Sister Kate Clutterbuck, Parkerville Home, Parkerville, Western Australia.
He was 24 and the son of Edgar M. and Mary [or May] Elizabeth Bentley.
There is some doubt about his birthplace-CWGC show him as being a native of London, but the NAA record of his attestation suggests he may have been born in Swindon, in Wiltshire.
Other possibilities are Croydon 1892 and Edmonton 1895
Commemorated on Roll of Honour, Parkerville Children's Home Chapel (now housed in Parkerville Hall).
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