Gordon Bennett (general)
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Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett, was a senior Australian Army officer who served in both World War I and World War II. A citizen soldier by background, Bennett began his professional life in t
Bennett in 1962
Bennett and his headquarters staff near the Menin Road, Belgium, 20 October 1917
Bennett, briefing war correspondents in Malaya, January 1942
Fall of Singapore
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Singapore was captured from the British by the Empire of Japan in February 1942 during the Second World War. The Fall or Battle of Singapore took place in the South–East Asian theatre of the Pacific W
Gordon Bennett (general)
…a part-time capacity and holding senior command appointments within the Citizen Military Forces. Bennett is most widely remembered for his role in the Fall of Singapore in February 1942 during World War II. As commander of the 8th Australian Division, he was among the senior Allied officers present when the British-led…
Lieutenant-General Arthur Percival (right), led by Ichiji Sugita, walks under a flag of truce to negotiate the capitulation of Commonwealth forces in Singapore, 15 February 1942.
The Pacific theatre in 1942, showing Singapore on the Malay peninsula
View of the blown-up causeway, with the gap visible in the middle, which delayed the Japanese conquest for over a week, to 8 February
Troops of the ill-fated 8th Australian Division disembark at Singapore Harbour.