BENNETT, PHILIP DENNIS, Capt., 5th (Territorial) Battn. The Royal Warwickshire Regt., only s. of Archibald Somerville Bennett, of 52, Farquhar Road, Edgbaston, Solicitor, by his wife, Laura, eldest dau. of the late John Henry Chamberlain; b. Edgbaston, Birmingham, co. Warwick, 11 July, 1891; educ. West House School there; Streete Court, Westgate-on-Sea, and Rugby School, where he was a member of the O.T.C.; was an Architect, and in Jan. 1914, was awarded the Grissell Prize and Medal by the R.I.B.A.; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 5th Royal Warwickshire Regt. 15 Aug. 1910; promoted Lieut. Nov. 1914, and Capt. June, 1915; volunteered for foreign service on the declaration of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from March, 1915; was invalided home in Jan. 1916, and on recovery was attached to the 3rd Battn. He died at Edgbaston 24 Feb. 1919, of influenza, and was buried in St. Patrick’s Churchyard, Tanworth-in-Arden. In March, 1919, his name was brought to the notice of the Secretary of State for War for valuable services rendered in connection with the war. He m. at St. Patrick’s, Tanworth-in-Arden, 17 Aug. 1915, Doris Mary, elder dau. of Arthur L. Lowe, C.B.E., Registrar, Birmingham County Court, and had two children: Dennis Labron, b. 21 Nov. 1917, and a dau., b. (posthumous) 22 Nov. 1919.