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Military service
Service number:
42748
Age:
26
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
August 17, 1918
Hazlemere, United Kingdom
Enlistment:
July 19, 1940
Salmon Arm, British Columbia
Death:
October 7, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. A. 6.
Additional information
Son of Thomas Richard and Janet Hunter Craig Bennetts. Husband of Patricia Kathryn Bennetts, of Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Corporal Thomas John Murray Bennetts
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Nun paying respects to the Fallen Canadians
The photo was taken by Captain Ronald Edson Grenfell Place of the 6th Canadian Field Dressing Station. The photos were taken while he was serving in Belguim. -
A little girl delivering flowers to the Fallen Canadians
The photo was taken by Captain Ronald Edson Grenfell Place of the 6th Canadian Field Dressing Station. The photos were taken while he was serving in Belguim. -
A little girl laying flowers to a fallen Canadian
The photo was taken by Captain Ronald Edson Grenfell Place of the 6th Canadian Field Dressing Station. The photos were taken while he was serving in Belguim. -
War Memorial
War Memorial, Salmon Arm & District, British Columbia. Inscribed: MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM SALMON ARM DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918. OUR HEROIC DEAD / THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE. -
Entrance
Photo submitted by Marg Liessens -
Cross of Sacrifice
Photo submitted by Marg Liessens -
Grave marker
Photo submitted by Marg Liessens -
Photo of THOMAS JOHN MURRAY BENNETTS
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Letter
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Attestation paper
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 248 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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