Book of Remembrance entry
Medical Exhibitioner : Sergeant, 36th Battn., A.I.F., France. Sailing in September, 1916, was pay corporal and sergeant at H.Q. in England and France till May, 1917. Then reverting to private to rejoin unit in firing line, served till death. Killed in Action, Messines, 7th June, 1917, and buried in Soldiers'' Cemetery, St. Yves. Early education at Sydney Grammar School.
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1897Birth in Carlingford -- NSW, Australia 12 September 1897
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?Early education at Sydney Grammar School, Darlinghurst, Sydney, Australia
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?Bennett, Geoffrey Newbon
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?Enlisted
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?Military service as Sergeant at France --, France
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1917Death in Messines --, Belgium 7 June 1917
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