20/5/1893
Born at Bacchus Marsh, VIC
20/10/1915
Enlisted at Melbourne, age 22
13/11/1915
NCO School as a Lance Corporal
31/1/1916
Transferred to OTS at Broadmeadows
3/7/1916
Embarked from Melbourne aboard the HMAT A33 Ayrshire
2/9/1916
Disembarked Plymouth
12/11/1916
Overseas to France per the SS Victoria
22/11/1916
Reverts to Private
24/11/1916
Joined Battalion in the field
4/12/1916
Temporary Corporal
27/1/1917
Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant
3/5/1917
WIA - Gunshot wound to the face
4/5/1917
Admitted 8th General Hospital, Rouen, France
16/5/1917
Admitted 3rd London General Hospital
19/6/1917
Promoted to Lieutenant
3/8/1917
Placed on the Seconded List - blind in left eye, right eye defective
1/11/1917
Embarked for Australia per A68
15/2/1918
Discharged from the AIF
1918
Married Murial Violet Bence
1920
Betty Murial Bennett was born at Stawell
1924
Teacher at Stawell High School
8/4/1942
Enlisted at Sale, VIC in the AMF
9/6/1942
In the VDC part-time duty
15/10/1942
Promoted to Captain, then Major and finally Lieutenant Colonel
31/7/1944
Ended service in VDC
1979
Died at Heidelberg aged 85
