News has been received of the death in France from wounds of Pte. Bennett Chart (Charitanski). He was one of many Russian orphans who were brought to London after their parents had been killed in pogrom. A well-known lady communal worker made the mothering of these orphan children her task and she placed Chart with a respectable Jewish family in the neighbourhood of New Cross. When he was old enough he was placed with a firm, and while in their employ he bore an unblemished character and was beloved by all at the business and in the home.

He joined the territorials before he was eighteen and in due course was sent to the front. He was wounded last month and every care was bestowed upon him in the hospital to which he was conveyed. Sister Ethel Kenna, writing to his friends in London, says: - “He was so good and patient through it all. We were very fond of him, he was always so grateful for anything we did for him. He passed away in his sleep very quietly. I had been speaking to him only a few minutes before. He was a brave soul and a brother, anyone would be proud of.”

The Rev. Louis Morris C.F. also writing to the same family, says: “I have heard how popular he was amongst his comrades, all of whom join in my expression of deepest sympathy. I saw him many times in hospital and was deeply touched by the remarkable endurance and bravery he showed in fighting his pains. It is men of his type that ennoble the name of Jew and Britisher. He was buried with full military honours according to the Jewish rite at the Etaples Military Cemetery.”