Nova Scotia/Nunavut Command of The Royal Canadian Legion www.ns.legion.ca 73 Sgt. Cecil Bennett Cpl. Harold Bennett Two sons of Joseph R. Bennett gave their lives for King and Empire during WW1. The following is an article taken from a Halifax newspaper of 1916; the photo is of Corporal Harold Bennett noted as killed in action at the front, who predeceased his brother Cecil. Halifax, April 20 – There was received in Halifax today, more news of the piercing lightning-like sort, which reminds us, as nothing else could so surely, that the great struggle overseas is real – not just a tale that is told. It came in the form of a cable received by Archdeacon Armitage, announcing that Sergeant Cecil Bennett, of the Twenty-Fifth Battalion, and, a son of Joseph R. Bennett, had been “killed in action” – the second of Mr. Bennet’s sons to make the supreme sacrifice for King and Empire, news of the death, in action, of Sergeant Harold Bennett, also of the TwentyFifth Battalion, being yet fresh in the public mind. This, as the whole community realizes, is poignantly sorrowful news to the young men’s parents, two more of whose boys are now overseas. They are Sergeants’ Charles and Oscar Bennett, the cable having come from the former, now at Folkestone. Sergeant Cecil Bennett who after the “single hour of glorious life that’s worth an age without a name”, stands enrolled forever on the Empire’s roll of honor, was a particularly fine boy, just about nineteen was he, a straight, clean, strong boy, well remembered by many as a member of the Church Lads’ Brigade of St. Paul’s, and later as a member of the Sixty-Sixth, having enjoyed in a particularly high degree Colonel Chipman’s regard, and been appointed by the latter clerk in the orderly room. He is gone – but how well remembered and with what pride! His parents have in their deep sorrow what warm, what general sympathy – boys like these are the boast and pride not of a household, but of a province, a Dominion – nay, of an Empire! The cable stated that Sergeant Bennett met death on April 15. Particulars, it said, would be forwarded later. continued ...
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