A Very Rare Great War Air Operations D.c.m. GTRexclude Burma Battlefront

Burma Battlefront

outstanding ability to analyze situations and great resourcefulness in providing proper solutions thereto

London Gazette 14 April 1941:"His Majesty has also been graciously pleased to give orders for the following Appointments to the Distinguished Service Order

Pacific Star

and a few weeks later he was invalided home suffering from shell-shock

A Very Rare Great War Air Operations D.c.m. GTRexclude Burma Battlefrontawarded to Chief Mechanic (Observer) T. Bennett, Royal Air Force, late Royal Flying Corps, whose marksmanship accounted for at least one enemy aircraft an artist? s impression of which combat later appeared in an illustrated history of the War prior to being severely wounded in a subsequent combat in October 1915, when hit by the nose of shell which fractured his arm: Distinguished Conduct Medal, G. V. R. (448 Cpl. T. Bennett, R. F. C.), in fitted,