Service Details
Name:
 BENNEWITH
Given Name:
 HARRY RANDALL
Initials:
 H R
Service No:
 J/51070
Rank:
 Ordinary Seaman
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Regiment:
 Royal Navy
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Unit:
 H.M.S. Vindictive
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Unit 2:
 28th Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1918-04-23
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Date of Birth:
 1899-09-28
Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, at Zeebrugge. During the operation, Harry belonged to the fore gun crew aboard HMS Vindictive. It was reported in the Johannesburg Star that Harry and the entire gun crew was blown to pieces by German shell fire. Harry was fatally wounded by this shellfire. (ref. Paul Kendall : The Zeebrugge Raid - 1918.)
Additional
Information:
Son of William James Bennewith, of Pretoria, South Africa, formerly of Stratford, London, England, and the late Ada Bennewith
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Kent
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Cemetery:
 DOVER (ST. JAMES'S) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 P. W. 60A

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