Harry Thring Bennett

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Commander (retired) Harry Thring Bennett, D.S.O. (21 February, 1888 – ) served in the Royal Navy. Some Navy Lists call him "Henry".[1]

Life & Career

Bennett was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 30 July, 1909.[2]

Thring was in Canopus at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in 1914.

Bennett was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Commander on 30 July, 1917.[3]

In 1918, he was posted to Bermuda to become Master Attendant and King's Harbour Master.

After the war he took command of the Australian surveying ship Geranium.

See Also

Bibliography

Naval Appointments
Preceded by
Kenneth H. L. MacKenzie 		Captain of H.M.S. Geranium
1 Jan, 1924[4] 		Succeeded by
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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Navy List. (July, 1927). p. 293.
  2. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1914). p. 8.
  3. ↑ The Navy List. (December, 1918). p. 363.
  4. ↑ The Navy List. (February, 1926). p. 293.


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