Bennett, William E (POW, Stalag Viiib, Damsdorf b.1920)

Places	Asia: Russia Europe: Germany Europe: Poland Europe: Poland, Kattowitz Oceania: Australia, Western Australia, Kalgoorlie
Accession Number	3DRL/3257
Collection type	Private Record
Record type	Collection
Measurement	1 ITEM
Object type	Papers
Maker	Bennett, William E German Army
Place made	Poland: Kattowitz
Date made	1943
Access	Open
Related File This file can be copied or viewed via the Memorial’s Reading Room.	AWM315 419/009/008
Conflict	Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright	Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain This item is in the Public Domain
Copying Provisions	Copyright restrictions apply. Only personal, non-commercial, research and study use permitted. Permission of copyright holder required for any commercial use and/or reproduction.

Description

Collection relating to the Second World War service of WX1649 Private William Ernest Bennett, 2/11 Battalion, Poland, 1943.

Wallet 1 of 1 - Typescript copy in English translation of the Statement of Charge against William Ernest Bennett, POW number 24890, Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf, 1943. The charge is that that Bennett, while working in an Army Supplies Depot bakery, stole a loaf of bread and gave it to a Soviet Prisoner of War. Bennett was sentenced to six weeks in solitary confinement.