TR/3/47395 Private James Bennett of the 76th Battalion, Training Reserve:

 

He died at the Whitchurch District of Shropshire on the 18 September 1917, aged 18 years, and he is buried in the churchyard of Christ Church, Denton.

 

James Bennett was born at Hyde, Cheshire, in 1899 to Thomas Bennett and Emma Elizabeth Smith who were married at St Paul’s Church, Portwood, Stockport, in 1884. In 1911 he was resident with his widowed mother and brothers, Amos (21) and Wilfred (18), on Acre Street, Denton, still at school.

Peter Whitehead