Rollo Worthy Bennett

1895 - Abt 1975  (79 years)

• Name	Rollo Worthy Bennett  [1]
  Birth	7 Apr 1895	Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [2]
  Baptism	4 May 1895	St George's Cathedral, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa   [2]
  Gender	Male
  1820 Lineage	Yes
  Occupation	Worthy farm, Kuruman district, Northern Cape, South Africa   [3]
  farmer
  Death	Abt 1975	Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa
  Person ID	I140038	master
  Last Modified	25 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Charles Edward Bennett,   b. 1863, Devonshire, England d. 24 Feb 1935, Worthy farm, Kuruman district, Northern Cape, South Africa (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Lilian Norton,   b. 1 Dec 1870, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 1 Sep 1949, Elstow, Cathcart district, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 78 years)
  Family ID	F2165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jessie Maud Louise Scott,   b. 27 Oct 1900, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa d. 23 Jul 2000, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 99 years)
  Marriage	12 Oct 1940	St Peter and St Paul, Springs, Transvaal, South Africa   [4]
  		Bennett, Rollo Worthy and Jessie Maud Scott marriage Caption Note: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT7B-LZ9 Keywords: Marriage
  Children	+ 1. Joan Mary Bennett + 2. Hugh Worthy Bennett,   b. 10 Dec 1947, Knysna, Western Cape, South Africa d. 16 Mar 2018, Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 70 years)
  Family ID	F50153	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2019

  
  

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  Birth - 7 Apr 1895 - Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa Baptism - 4 May 1895 - St George's Cathedral, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa Death - Abt 1975 - Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Rollo was “One of God’s Very Last Gentlemen”! He NEVER complained about anything or spoke badly about other people, EVER! He spoke perfect “old” Xhosa – none of this “i-creami, ibiscuiti”, etc. As a young lad, he swam into a raging river - coming down, knife in his mouth, to cut the oxen free from the wagon caught in the torrent and, having done that, swam to the other side. All the oxen made it out onto the other bank. He was, also, one of the 750 survivors of the Battle of Delville Wood in 1916. He was captured on Day 4 (ammunition ran out) and spent the rest of the war as a POW working as slave labour in a coalmine. For quite a while he was Missing-in-Action, Presumed Dead. He attended the “laying of the cornerstone of the Memorial Clock Tower Ceremony” (St Andrews College, Grahamstown) at the end of the war. A “preppie” came up to him and said, “Sir, are you the Mr Bennett who’s dead?” He smiled wryly and answered, “Yes! I am.” {per Barbara bennett} [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2181] Family Search website, (www.familysearch.org), https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91C-75HF (Reliability: 3). [S4008] Bennett, Barbara. [S2181] Family Search website, (www.familysearch.org), https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91Q-NWH3-9 (Reliability: 3). [S2181] Family Search website, (www.familysearch.org), https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GT7B-LZ9 (Reliability: 3).