ARTHUR HERBERT BENNS
Images courtesy of Alison Mann
Born: 5th August 1896, Stoke, Ipswich.
Baptised on the 4th July 1897, at St. Peter’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 48, Pauline Street, Ipswich.
Died: 29th August 1916; age 20; KiA.
Residence: 2, Turin Street, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Ipswich.
Rank: Lance Corporal; Service Number: 2437
Regiment: Suffolk Regiment, 4th Battalion.
Medals Awarded: Victory & British War.
Memorial Reference:
Pier & Face 1C & 2A.
Somme,
France.
CENSUS
1901 48, Pauline Street, Ipswich.
Arthur was 4 years old and living with his parent & sister.
Herbert Robert Benns, 28, a Miller, born Shotterley, Suffolk.
Mary Elizabeth Benns (nee Pollard), 27, born Ipswich.
Ida Kate Benns, 3, born Ipswich.
1911 2, Turin Street, Ipswich.
Arthur was 14 years old, Tailor’s Shop for Errands. He was living with his parents & sisters.
Herbert, 38, a Flour Miller for Fisons Flour Miller.
Mary, 36.
Ida, 13.
Dorothy May Benns, 8, born Ipswich.
Phyllis M. Benns, 1 month, born Ipswich.
Soldiers’ Effects to Herbert Benns – father.
Arthur is also remembered on the war memorial at St. Peter’s Church, Ipswich.
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1916
THE SUFFOLK REGIMENT 1/4th Battalion :
The 4th Battalion of the Suffolks, following their rest period from the Battle on the 18th, moved up to Fricourt Wood and advanced on the 25th, Montauban Alley, Carleton trench and later that night, Savoy and George Street trench. On the 28th August, the battalion moved up to the recently captured Wood Lane, supporting Orchard Street. The Germans were shelling the area in preparation for an attack on the 30th. The attack was violent, using bombs on Wood Lane, causing many casualties in the defence of the freshly captured ground.
Suffolk Regiment Battalion movements
SUFFOLK REGIMENT MUSEUM
Friends of The Suffolk Regiment
2 Comments
Thank you for putting these family photos on your memorials! Lovely to see! Arthur’s father Herbert Robert Benns was from a large family of Millers and farmers from SOTTERLEY Suffolk which is 4 miles south of Beccles. At least two generations were baptised in the parish church St Margarets. A lovely Flint church set in the grounds of Sotterley park.
We will be coming to Ipswich tomorrow to put a cross on your war memorial this year! Looking forward to sharing this time with the people of Ipswich where my mother and grandparents were born.