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Munster Fusiliers. He was killed in action on 13 October 1915. The file includes the following: 1. School Records, 1904-11 Jack’s calling card; Mostyn House School (Parkgate, Cheshire) Rifle Cadet Corps Shooting Log, 1903-04; Shrewsbury School Chapel Order of Service, 11 July 1906; Shrewsbury School class lists, 1906-07 (4 items); Shrewsbury School house lists, 1907 (2 items); Debating Society Programme, Christmas 1907 ( two names – EC Longworth and M Perrin – are underlined and noted as ‘Friends of JWB’s who came to Charleston’); Junior Steeplechase Programme, 14 March 1908; Amateur Dramatics Programme, Easter 1911; Menu [undated]; Fragment of draft of play, ‘Pretty Poor Food for 2d, or So Am I’, ‘Comedy in 3 acts by JW Bennett, Music and Jokes by M Perrin’; Rough jottings, including notes possibly for a comic speech and copies of poems [5 items]. 2. Volumes, school days, 1905-08 Letterbook, copies of letters from Eustace Longworth, 1907, and of one letter in reply from October 1907, much of it in verse, with many quotations from well-known poems (six enclosures present, inside back cover); Exercise book, Practical Physics, 1905-08. [Books filed separately from remainder of this file] 3. Letters and Postcards, 1906-08 Card from the Bishop of Cork recording that John William Bennett, presented by Rev WE Fluett, from Midleton Parish, was confirmed in St John Baptists’ Church, by the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, on 8 May 1906; Unsigned post card from a friend, 7 May 1907; Post card from his mother from Dinant, Belgium, where she is holidaying, 12- 13 June 1907; Letter from King’s College, Cambridge, informing him that, while he has not obtained a scholarship or exhibition at the recent examinations, his results qualify him as a candidate for honours in Natural Sciences, should he wish to enter the College (14 December 1907); Post card from a friend [HA Harries?], 2 December 1908, addressed to Jack at Norton’s, Bagnalstown, Co Carlow. 4. Letters, War Service, 1914-15 Letter, 5 November 1914, from WMG Crosbie, Adjutant, 3 rd Brigade of Royal Munster Fusiliers, informing Jack of his appointment to a commission as 2 nd lieutenant (printed list of field kit enclosed); Letter, 11 November 1914, certifying men passed and rejected for the 3 rd RMF [Jack not named]; Letters (20 January 1915 and 3 February 1915) from ‘Eustace’ [EC Longworth], 13 th Lancashire Fusiliers, 26 Abercrombie Street, Chesterfield; Bill of account, 30 April 1915, of mess expenses owed by 2 nd Lieut Bennett (marked paid, 3 May 1915); Ms note on ‘Instructing a Squad in Firing Positions’; Typescript Order of Battle for Battle of Ypres-Armentieres, 11 October to 20 November 1914.]
B609/9/C/2 Folder containing ms draft of a story by John W Bennett entitled
‘Vagabonds: An Ill-told Tale’. Undated [Shrewsbury School days; see also B609/9/A/58].
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