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Corporal WILLIAM HEDLEY BENNETT

Service Number: 5436037
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 12 September 1942

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

KARACHI WAR CEMETERY

5. B. 8.

Pakistan

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William James Bennett and Alice Maud Bennett, of St. Columb Major, Cornwall.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF HEDLEY. AT REST. HIS FATHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS
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Buried or commemorated at

KARACHI WAR CEMETERY
Pakistan
Number of casualties: 642
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