BENNETT, Charles Samuel

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Leading Seaman
HMS Tartar - Destroyer
Royal Navy

Charles was born on the 27th of August 1898 in Portsea, Hampshire to Charles Edwin & Emma Jane (nee BROWER) BENNETT who were living at 2 Guildford Road in Portsmouth Hampshire around the time if Charles’ death. 1916 at St. John’s Church in Newport, he married Edith May TOOGOOD & was living in Guildhall Road in Newport.

Charles was a regular in the Navy having served on HMS Venerable in Gibraltar around 1911. Charles, aged 25, Died of Wounds following a mine strike aboard the Tartar, in the Dover Strait, on the 17th of July 1917 which killed another 42 members of the crew. Charles was subsequently buried at sea & the ship eventually towed back to the UK. Charles is commemorated by the Commission on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial together with over 10,000 of his First World War shipmates.

Charles is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetery

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.