Lieutenant General Henry Gordon Bennett CB, CMG, DSO (April 16, 1887 - August 1, 1962), Australian soldier, served in both World War I and World War II. Despite highly decorated achievements during World War I, including at Gallipoli, Bennett is best remembered for his role in the Fall of Singapore in the Pacific War when, as commander of the 8th Division, he escaped while his men became prisoners of the Japanese. Wikipedia
Gordon Bennett, born on 16 April 1887 at Balwyn, Melbourne, was Australia's most controversial Second World War commander. www.awm.gov.au/people/110.asp
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Gordon Bennett. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bennett_%28Australian_soldie...