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Bennett (who was always known as Gordon) was born in Balwyn, Melbourne, on 15 April 1887, to George Bennett, a South African-born school teacher, and his Australian-born wife, Harriet. He was the sixth of nine children and attended Balwyn State School, where his father taught, and then Hawthorn College as a teenager having been given a three ...
Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett CB, CMG, DSO (16 April 1887 – 1 August 1962) was an Australian soldier who served in both World War I and World War II.Bennett (who was always known as Gordon) was born in Melbourne and at 29 became at the time the youngest Australian general.
The Allied commander, Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival, gave Major General Gordon Bennett's 8th Division the task of defending the prime invasion points on the north side of the island, in a terrain dominated by mangrove swamps and forest. [20]
Bennett Jr. was an accomplished polo player, tennis player and yachtsman. [3] There was also an Australian general of the same name from World War II , but any link there is ruled out by an earlier 1937 quotation of the interjection.
Gordon Bennett (general) (1887–1962), Australian soldier; Gordon Bennett (union organiser) (1944–1991), Christmas Island labor advocate; Gordon Dunlap Bennett (born 1946), American Catholic bishop; Gordon Lockhart Bennett (1912–2000), Canadian politician; James Gordon Bennett Sr. (1795–1872), American editor and New York Herald founder
The following is a list of Australians who have attained general officer rank within the Australian Army; that is, officers who have held the rank of field marshal (five-star rank), general (four-star rank), lieutenant general (three-star rank), major general (two-star rank) or brigadier general (one-star rank).
Meg Bennett, a veteran soap opera writer and actress, has died. She was 75. Bennett -- who was best known for her writing on shows, including The Bold and the Beautiful and General Hospital, as ...
Escape from Singapore is a 1973 Australian TV dramatised documentary about General Gordon Bennett and his escape from Singapore in World War II. [1] It was a number of dramatised documentaries Power made for Australian TV. He spent ten months researching it, accessing papers provided by Bennett's widow.