BENNING, Harold Vincent
| Service Number: | 4647 |
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| Enlisted: | 4 January 1916, Liverpool |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 1st Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Gunnedah, New South Wales, Australia, 8 June 1897 |
| Home Town: | East Maitland, Maitland Municipality, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | East Maitland and Gunnedah Public Schools, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Grocer and prominent footballer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 14 November 1916, aged 19 years |
| Cemetery: |
St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen Block O, Plot II, Row C, Grave No. 9 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gunnedah Public School WW1 Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 4 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 4647, 1st Infantry Battalion, Liverpool | |
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| 15 Jan 1916: | Embarked Private, 4647, 1st Infantry Battalion, RMS Osterley, Sydney | |
| 15 Jan 1916: | Involvement Private, 4647, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '7' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: RMS Osterley embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
| 10 Mar 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 45th Infantry Battalion (WW1) | |
| 10 Jul 1916: | Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Infantry Battalion | |
| 5 Nov 1916: | Wounded AIF WW1, Private, 4647, 1st Infantry Battalion, 'The Winter Offensive' - Flers/Gueudecourt winter of 1916/17, GSW thighs | |
| 14 Nov 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 4647, 1st Infantry Battalion |
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Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Let us remember 2 Fallen brothers of The Great War memorialised together at Sandgate Cemetery.
On the 14th November 1916, Private Harold Vincent Benning, referred to as Harry, 1st Battalion (Reg No-4647), grocer (Maitland Co-operative store) and a prominent footballer from Ann Street, East Maitland, New South Wales, Died of Wounds at the 1st Australian General Hospital, Rouen, France, age 19. Battle of Flers.
No Australian Red Cross Wounded and Missing File.
Born at Gunnedah, New South Wales on the 9th June 1897 to George Henry (died 5.9.1940, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 91) and Elizabeth Mary Benning (died 5.9.1926, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 68, mother of 10 sons) of 48 Wilton Street, Merewether, New South Wales and 39 Hamilton Street, Hamilton North, N.S.W., Harry enlisted on the 12th August 1915 at Liverpool, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board RMS Osterley on the 15th January 1916.
Admitted to hospital 27.7.1916 (sprained ankle).
Wounded in action - 5.11.1916 (GSW thighs, dangerously ill).
Mr. Benning is resting at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France. Block O Plot II Row C Grave 9.
Place of Association - East Maitland, Maitland, New South Wales, Australia.
Harry’s name has been inscribed on the Book of Gold, East Maitland Soldiers' Memorial, East Maitland Public School Roll of Honour, East Maitland St. Peter's Anglican Church Roll of Honour Tablet, Gunnedah Public School WW1 Honour Roll and The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
Older brother Leslie Edward (born 20.8.1894, Gunnedah, New South Wales, dairy farmer from Ann Street, East Maitland, New South Wales, enlisted 12.8.1915, 1st Battalion, Reg No-3687, wounded in action - 23.7.1916 (GSW abdomen), died of wounds 24.7.1916, age 21 years 11 months, resting at Warloy-Baillon Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot V Row E Grave 18) memorialised same location.
I have placed poppies at the memorialised Benning gravesite in remembrance of the service and supreme sacrifice of their two sons for God, King & Country. ANGLICAN 1-78. 112.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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