Robert Bennett
Rank: Private
Service No: 14855
Place of Birth: Rutherglen
Date of Death: 01/07/1916
Theatre of Death: F&F
Regiment/Service: Highland Light Infantry (16th Bn.)
Cemetery: Lonsdale Cemetery, Authuille
Rutherglen Lore information: Son of Mrs. Bennett (late Gowanbrae) Kenmore, Rothesay.
Soldier’s Effects information: Mother Joan Bennett.
1901 census information:
Address: Gowanbrae, Wardlawhill Street, Rutherglen.
Father: John (50) draper, born about 1851 in Dumfries.
Mother: Joan (46) born about 1855 in Dumfries.
Sister: Jeanie (23) born about 1878 in Glasgow.
Brother: John (18) draper’s assistant, born about 1883 in Glasgow.
Self: Robert (9) born about 1892 in Rutherglen.
Also commemorated on the family headstone in Rutherglen Cemetery.
