Tuesday 2 September 2014

Ardsley Cemetery Tom Bennett

Tom Bennett is remembered on his in-laws grave plot (photo taken 9 July 2014)
Links:

War Memorials Archive listing

War Memorials Online listing

Second World War - Barnsley War Memorials
Researched by MAC

Photograph by BarnsleyHistorian

Grave Location and Inscription:

V 940

*Herbert Pickering d.1948 aged 61* (assumed from burial records - stone illegible)
Also Tom Son-in-Law of the aforesaid / and dearly loved husband of Mary Bennett / killed in Burma March 2nd 1945 Aged 34 years / Also the aforesaid / Eleanor Pickering / who died Jan 10th 1958 aged 70 years.


Tom is also remembered on the Ardsley, Christ Church, Christ Church Parishioners - WW2 plaque.

Tom is buried in the Taukkyan War Cemetery in Myanmar (previously Burma) and commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website.  




BWMP #ARD06/8

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