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Service, death and biographical detail sourced from Swithun and Mary.org (see References). 'Private Sydney Charles Bennett born abt. 1896 in Hiams Lane, Hartpury, Gloucestershire Lived at Tythrop Cottage, Hempsted. Sydney age 15 a "Servant / Agricultural Labourer at Elmore". Sydney probably enlisted in 1914 the Gloucestershire Regiment 2/5th Battalion Service no. 241229. He died of his wounds on 25 April 1918 (age 22) CWGC - "Remembered with Honour at Aire Communal Cemetery, France"'