Service Details
Name:
 BENNETT
Given Name:
 GEORGE
Initials:
 G
Service No:
 8722
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 24 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1942-03-23
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Age:
 37
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Douglas Boston Mk III AL800, shot down over Mertuba East by German flak
Additional
Information:
Son of John Pringle and Minnie Bennett, of Adelaide, Cape Province, South Africa; husband of Dorothy Charlotte Fanny Bennett, of Adelaide. Educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown. On Adelaide Town War Memorial, Eastern Cape. On Bedford Town War Memorial, Eastern Cape
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALAMEIN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Column 266.

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