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BENNETT, Arthur Leslie
(Service number 7/305)

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Rifleman

Birth

Date	1 July 1884	Place of Birth	Tasmania

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Swannanoa
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Widower. Two children
Next of Kin	Jas BENNETT (father), Hedley Road, Timaru; previously Latrobe, Tasmania; later of Lyalldale, St Andrews (1931)
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship
Date
Transport
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns	Balkan (Gallipoli); Egyptian
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	30 March 1916	Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	24 July 1965	Age	81 years
Place of Death
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Timaru Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Services Section, Row 118, Plot 12
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Arthur Leslie Bennett stated that he was a widower with two children - Henry royner Bennett born on 4 May 1909 at Fernside, Rangiora, and Frances Bennett born on 20 August 1911 at Randwick, Sydney.

Sources

Timaru Cemetery headstone image (Timaru District Council) [110 January 2017]

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