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VC766 Eugene Paul Bennett
Name Eugene Paul Bennett No.
VC Issue No. 766 Awards VC MC
Regiment Worcestershire Regiment, 2nd Battalion, C Company
Later Worcestershire & Sherwood Foresters Regiment
Now 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment
Rank VC Won Temporary Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Captain
Place Of Birth Cainscross, Stroud, Gloucestershire, England
Place Of Death At his home, Vicenza, Northern Italy
Buried/Location Ashes Vicenza Crematorium, Via Trieste, Vicenza, Italy
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated Vicenza Crematorium, Via Trieste, Vicenza, Italy
Headstone Tablet Plot/Grave no. Niche 116
Gazetted 30 December 1916
VC Presented 5 February 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Vault, Vicenza Crematorium, Via Trieste, Vicenza, Northern Italy
Named on Wall Panel, Front Hall, Bank Of England, Threadneedle Street, City Of London
Portrait, Marling School, Stroud, Gloucestershire
P Window, Worcester Cathedral, Worcestershire
By The Way…
Before the war he worked in the Accounts Department at the Bank Of England
VC Held By
Worcestershire Regiment Museum, Worcester City Museum, Foregate Street, Worcester, Worcestershire, England
BORN 12 January 1892
DIED 6 April 1970 AGE 77
VC Won 5 November 1916 AGE 24
Place VC Won Le Transloy, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
