Acting Corporal Simon Bennett
7927 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers
Killed in Action 21st December 1914, aged 30
Lived at 48 Clarence Street
Commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial, France

THREE BURNLEY SOLDIER BROTHERS (Burnley News 23rd January 1915)
ONE KILLED AT LA BASEE

On Wednesday evening Mr. And Mrs. Bennett of 48 Clarence-street, Burnley, received a War Office intimation that their son, Corporal Simon Bennett (7927), of the C. Company, 2nd Royal Munster Fusiliers, had been killed in action at La Bassee on the 21st December. Corporal Bennett was a signaller and had been in the army since 1904. Eight of the nine years he had served with the colours were spent in India, and his reserve would have been completed next year. At the outbreak of the war he was working in Durham, prior to which he was employed at the Towneley Colliery. He received a medal for a small action in India.
Corporal Bennett was one of three soldier brothers, the other two being Private Edwin Bennett, who is 22 years of age, and a member of the local “Pals” Battalion, and Private James Henry Bennett, a member of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, who has been in France since the outbreak of the war. Private Edwin Bennett is a married man, and the father of two children.