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Arthur Bennell
1897 - 28/10/1918
Source: Bromley & District Times
Other Memorials: National School (now Parish School), Bromley Baptist Church
Place of birth: Bromley, Kent
Last known address in Bromley: 8 Saxon Road
Last known address in Bromley: 8 Saxon Road
Military information
Regiment/Service: Queen's Own Royal West Kent RegimentBattalion/Ship: 2nd Bn
Rank: Private
Number: G/23756
Family information
Parents: William & Annie Bennell (nee Boyce)Parents' occupation: Grocer's assistant
Siblings: May, Arthur, William Alfred
Census information
1901Address: 102 Park End
1911
Address: 8 Saxon Road
Extra details
Arthur was the second of William and Annie Bennell's four children. He attended Bromley National Day and Sunday Schools, Bromley Baptist Church and was in the Scouts for four years. Leaving school he was apprenticed to the Grouting Engraving Company, College Road but in November 1916, at the age of 18½ he joined the Royal West Kents, went out to India and from there to Mesopotamia where he was killed by shrapnel while passing through a Turkish artillery barrage.
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