MILITARY FUNERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 October 1918, Page 5

MILITARY FUNERAL.

[ LATE PRIVATE H. BENNETT. The late Private Henry Bennett. wliS'- 'v' died in the New Plymouth Hospital at' Thursday last, was buried at Te Heiwi' ■' cemetery on Saturday with mflitaw ?, 0 °° ra ,; J 01 ® cortege left tfhe Catholic Church, Devon Street, at 2.30 J, p.m. The Citizens' Band paiaded and ' " played "The Dead March" along th& route. The hearers were refrained sol- '' diers, and the firing party consisted of nien on-leave from camp, who were row j i der the command of Sergt.-Maior Oroaaw' " j ton. Lieut. C. W. Crutch was in tihsigS of tfhe military arrangements, and thetri was a small attendance of territorialsand cadets, under Lieuts. Howarth aiul> >\ Reid and Sergt.-Major Hunt. Thero wm*> -* '• also a number of returned soldiers tB& ; toen on leave from camp present large number of private citizens also •!*;, tended. The service at the graveside' was conducted by the Eev. Father KeHy> and, at the the tisual sahrfa \ was fired and xhe "Last Post" by Veteran Bugler H. Walker. ' The late Private Bennett was £ son; .< of the late Wm. Bennett, and watf f|i .p member of the Samoan force. He X&-i turned to New Zealand and enlisted, aaj£> ing with the 15th Reinforcements. was badly gassed and invalided ttrtjme,' ' and spent some months in tii* local hospital. *■" " / ■