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Russell F. Bennett - Plainfield, Wisconsin

Army Rank: Private (1918).

Assigned Unit: 107th Supply Train, 32^nd Division, Company C

  5^th Wisconsin Infantry Co L: July 17, 1917 – Oct. 5, 1917

  32^nd Div. 107^th Supply Train Co. C.: Oct. 6, 1917 – Feb. 5, 1918

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Enlisted: July 17, 1917 Wautoma, Wisconsin (age 18)

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA

    Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

    Graduated from Plainfield High School (1917)

Fathers Name: George W. Bennett

Mothers Name: Jennie F. Bennett

    (b. July 1861 Wisconsin)

Brothers: George W. Bennett

Russell was born: July 14, 1899 Plainfield, Wisconsin

Died: Feb. 5, 1918 at sea, Islay, Scotland

    Buried in Kilnaughton, Islay February 12, 1918.

    Body exhumed and relocated to America, 1920

Cemetery: ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

DATE OF INTERMENT: 10/22/1920

Plot: SECTION 18  SITE 1010