Name
Cyril Kirby Bentley
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/08/1916
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/16519
King's Royal Rifle Corps
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Plot 2. Row B. Grave 48.
France
Headstone Inscription
'He Died That All He Loved Might Live'.
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Buntingford memorials,
Not on the Aspenden memorials
Pre War
Cyril was recorded as born in Aspenden in 1885 to Albert and Eliza. In the 1891 census they were living in Wyddial, Hertfordshire. By 1901 they had moved to Mill End Thaxted and Cyril was working as a sweet factory hand. He married Edith Hewitt in 1912 in Bishop Stortford. Listed on Commonwealth War Graves site as son of Albert and Emma Bentley of Thaxted, Essex. Husband of Edith M Bentley 51 Kimberley Avenue, Seven Kings, Essex.
Cyril enlisted in London on the 10 November 1915. His address at the time was 5 George Street, Euston Road NW London.
Wartime Service
Additional Information
Inscription on grave reads 'He Died That All He Loved Might Live'.
Acknowledgments
Kate Thompson
Jonty Wild, Carol Emery
