Lance Corporal Edward Bennett

Army Number: 31885

Battalion: 17th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Harpur Hill, Buxton, Derbyshire. Son of Edward and Ellen Bennett, of 26, Rock Bank Cottages, Harpur Hill. He was a quarry worker prior to enlisting at Buxton, October 1915. He was killed in action, 22nd May 1916, aged 28, whilst trying to rescue a comrade after the explosion of a mine while serving in the line at Gorre, France. 

Buried  : Le Touret Military Cemetery, Richebourg-lAvoue, France. Plot 3, Row F, Grave 26.

Lance Corporal Edward Bennett is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
The Slopes Memorial, Buxton, Derbyshire.
St John’s Church, War Memorial, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Harpur Hill Memorial, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Buxton Lime Industries Memorial, Buxton, Derbyshire.

His brother Private William Bennett, 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.