On a Monday afternoon in May 1916 Kalgoorlie's bishop conveyed the 'sad intelligence' to the Bennett family that their son George, a bank clerk before joining the 28th battalion, was dead. They ordered this printed tribute from a stationer to 'Another glorious Anzac who gave his all for King and Country' and whom they believed, proudly but mistakenly, to have been the first Australian soldier killed in France. (AWM P05315.001; Kalgoorlie Western Argus, 9 May 1916, p. 14)
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AWM P05315.001
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