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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 856

Three: Sapper C. E. Bennett, 486th Field Company, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917

1914-15 Star (1253 Spr. C. E. Bennett, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (1253 Spr. C. E. Bennett, R.E.), together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Charles Edwin Bennett), extremely fine (4)

Charles Edwin Bennett was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza on 27 March 1917. The 486th Company was attached to the 54th (East Anglian) Division which attacked the south-eastern defences of Gaza. Following withdrawal on 26 March, an advance on 27 March was made by 160 & 161 Brigades to recapture ground abandoned day before, and it was during this action that Sapper Bennett was killed, being one of few R.E. casualties.

Aged 29, he was the son of Charles and Ruth Bennett of Lesters Cottages, Goldington, Bedford, and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.


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Estimate
£100 to £120

Starting price
£70

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