In Memory Of
BENNETT, MALCOLM OSWALD
Service Details
Age:
32
Date of Birth:
1884-11-10
Service No:
8682
Rank:
Private
Unit:
1st Regt.
Regiment:
South African Infantry
Date of Death:
1917-04-12
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, in the improvised and disastrous attack of the 9th (Scottish) Division on the German positions in the East of Fampoux. The 1st SAI lost 2 officers and 203 men.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
A. 13.
Cemetery:
ATHIES COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Localitly:
Pas de Calais
Country:
France
Additional Information
Son of Mary Rheda Preston (remarried) and the late George Lenox Bennett, of Komgha, Cape Province, South Africa. Living at Mbabene, Swaziland
