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Name: BENNETT, Philip Sidney
Nee: son of Philip Alfred and Grace Rhoda Bennett, bro of Dr Henry Hugh William Bennett
Birth Date: 28.4.1897 Pontefract
Death Date: ?1961
First Date: 1906
Profession: Sanitary overseer
Area: Thika, 1930 Kahawa Maryfield, Kahawa, 1922 Machakos
Married: Eunice Mildred Clarke b. 9 Nov 1895 Stroud Green, London, d. (as Eunice Mildred Penn-Clarke) 19 July 1967 Cosham, Hants.
Book Reference: Red 19, Red 31, Hut, EAMR, Red 22, EAHB 1906, North, Red Book 1912
War Service: WW1 with EAMR - A Sqdn 7/8/14 - To Signals
General Information:
Partner with Gratton Norman, the husband of his sister Emma Violet.
Red 19 - Sydney Bennett, Settler, Chania Bridge
Red 22 - P.S. Bennett, Voi
EAHB 1906 - P.S. Bennett - Ruiru River Kiambu
Red Book 1912 - P.S. Bennett - Kyambu
Gazette - 2/9/1925 - Petition for Insolvency - Philip Sydney Bennett
Philip Sidney Bennett - Kenya Regiment 1511
Wife comes from KR records 1940. She went to Bedales School and writes in the Bedales Chronicle of June 1945: Eunice M. Bennett (née Clarke) writes from c/o. The East African Standard, Ltd., Nairobi, Kenya, that she would like to hear news of Old Bedalians who were at school in her time, that is from 1909 to 1914.
Gazette 15 Jan 1952 Deed poll 30/11/1952 Eunice MIldred Penn Clarke natural born British subject renounces the name Eunice MIldred Bennett
Gazette 15 Jan 1952 Deed poll 30/11/1952 Eunice MIldred Penn Clarke natural born British subject renounces the name Eunice MIldred Bennett