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Wartime Heritage
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Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Charles Heber Bent
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Charles Heber Bent
734453
Private
112th Battalion; 25th Battalion
June 9, 1881
Digby, NS
March 13, 1916
Yarmouth NS
Yarmouth, NS
34
5 feet, 9 inches
fair
dark brown
blue
29th Battery, CFA, Yarmouth
Married
Baptist
Fisherman
John Hutchinson (Brother), Mansfield, Massachusetts, USA
March 25, 1972
Mountain Cemetery Yarmouth
(Aged 92)
Married to Elizabeth Bent; five children, three boys and 2 girls
Service:
Arrived in England: SS Olympic July 31, 1916
Arrived in France October 11, 1916
March 14, 1916 - enlisted with the 112th Battalion
October 11, 1916 - served with the 25th Battalion
April 13, 1918 - served with the 2nd Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps (France)
May 25, 1919 - discharged on demobilization
Wounded:
February 4, 1918 (gun shot wound to left side); rejoined 25th Battalion in Field February 18, 1918
Photo: Wartime Heritage 2016
