Army Number: 2701671 Rank: Guardsman Name John BENNETT Unit: 1 Scots Guards Date of Birth: 19 April 1913. Place of Birth: Dalry, Scotland Date of Capture: 10 February 1944 Theatre of Capture: Italy SCOTS GUARDS - Italy, Missing Personnel file - WO 361/785 SG Missing ITALY ; 10 Feb 1944 POW POW number: 275892 POW Camp: Stalag XIA Altengrabow Died 04/12/1944, aged 31
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C16583819 Reference: WO 416/27/138 Name: John Bennett. Date of Birth: 19 April 1913. Place of Birth: Dalry, Scotland. Service: British Army. Rank: Guardsman. Regiment/Unit/Squadron: Scots Guards. Service Number: 2701671. Date of Capture: 10 February 1944. Theatre of Capture: Italy. Camp Name/Number: Stalag XIA Altengrabow. PoW number: 275892. Date of Death: 4 December 1944. Number of Photographs: 1. Number of Fingerprints: 1. Number of X-rays: 0. Number of Cards: 4. Date: [1939-1945]
Casualty Guardsman BENNETT, JOHN Service Number 2701671 Died 04/12/1944 Aged 31 1st Bn. Scots Guards Son of John and Robina Bennett; husband of Mary Bennett, of Wishaw, Lanarkshire. Buried at BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY Location: Berlin, Germany Number of casualties: 3204 Cemetery/memorial reference: 11. B. 21. See cemetery plan
Bennett John – Guardsman 2701671 – Scots Guards 1st Battalion. John, born in 1913 in Ayrshire, son of John and Robina, of 33 Marshall Street, Wishaw. He married Mary, had four children, and resided at 124, Alexander Street, Wishaw. John was an electrician with the Burgh of Motherwell and Wishaw, prior to enlisting. Guardsman Bennett enlisted with the Scots Guards in June 1943. He took part in the Anzio landing and a fortnight later, on the 15th of February 1944, he was captured and made a prisoner of war. Guardsman Bennett was imprisoned in Stalag 11A and made good use of his electrical training as he was to made work 12 hours a day. He died of heart failure on the 4th of December 1944, whilst a prisoner of war. He never got to see his youngest daughter, Doris Ann, who was born in 1944. John is buried in Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Germany, 11.B.21.