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7 Coast Regiment

 

Compiled with the help of the Commonwealth War Graves and Martin Stiles

 

This Page is Dedicated To

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Bombardier

Bennett, William John

 

Royal Artillery

7 Coast Regiment

Associate Regiment and Unit:-

Unknown

 

 

 

Age:

24

Date of Death:

1943/03/05

Cause of Death:

Part of the 600 Gunners Party who died on Ballali Island where a mass grave was found.

Place of Death:

Ballali Island

 

Loved Ones

Son of Henry Bennett, and of Hannah Bennett, of Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

 

Memorial

Column 7.

SINGAPORE MEMORIAL

Kranji War Cemetery west of the Singapore-Johore road (Bukit Timah Expressway) on Woodlands Road

Singapore

 

Left Changi 1942/10/18, commandeered by Lt-Col. J. Bassett, R.A., 35 L.A.A.. Dying with 516 other gunners, was laid to rest at 12 mile north of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

 

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