In Newcastle upon Tyne (St. Andrew’s and Jesmond) Cemetery is the Commonwealth War Grave of:

19/1256 Private
E.H.K. Bennett
Northumberland Fusiliers
2nd January 1915 age 17

Ever remembered
By his loving sisters
Lily and Elizabeth

The son of the late George and Mary Bennett.

Edward Herman.Hermann  Kovn/Korm Bennett was born in 1898 in Ireland.

In the 1901 and 1911 Census he was living at 13 Salmon Street South Shields.

Royal Victoria Infirmary Coroners report Number 4, 4th January 1915.
Edward Herman Kovn Bennett, aged 17 years. 13 Salmon Street, South Shields: Private 19th Service Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. Died in 1st Northern General Hospital at 8pm on 1st.

Deceased died from Cerebral Haemorrhage.

Edward Bennett’s name is not in the 19th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers History or on a memorial at South Shields.