Orders, Decorations and Medals

An O.B.E. group of thirteen awarded to Brigadier C. V. Bennett, Royal Army Service Corps

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Military) Officer’s 1st type breast badge, silver-gilt, hallmarks for London 1928; 1914 Star, with clasp (2 Lieut., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1919-21 (Capt., R.A.S.C.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, medals mounted for display on board, all with adhesive marks, Great War medals with contact marks, fine and better (13) £340-380

O.B.E. London Gazette 23 June 1936. ‘Major (Local Lieut. Colonel), A.M.I.Mech.E., Royal Army Service Corps, Officer Commanding Somaliland Camel Corps, The King’s African Rifles’.

M.I.D. London Gazette 15 June 1916; 30 December 1941.

Charles Vere Bennett was born on 24 December 1892, the second son of Lieutent-Colonel A. C. Bennett, D.S.O., West Yorkshire Regiment, of Ardleigh Park, Colchester. He was educated at the Army School, Stratford-on-Avon and was latterly an A.M.I.Mech. E. He entered the Army as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Berkshire Regiment in 1912 and transferred to the A.S.C. in 1914. During the Great War he served in France/Flanders, 22 September-December 1914 and August 1915-November 1918. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches. Promoted to Captain in November 1917, he served as an Acting Major, February 1920-January 1921, was promoted to Major in October 1935 and received the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel in July 1936. After service in India, he served as an Instructor at the Army Technical School for Boys, May 1928-January 1930, and was Administrative Officer at the School, January-April 1930. Employed with the King’s African Rifles, April 1933-April 1935, he served as a Company Commander in the Somaliland Camel Corps and in the 1936 Birthday Honours List, was awarded the O.B.E. During the Second World War he was A.D. of S.& T., February-March 1940 and D.D. of S.& T., East Africa, September 1940-December 1943. He served as an Acting and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel, December 1939-February 1941 and was promoted to war substantive Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1941 and Colonel in June 1941. Bennett held the rank of Acting Brigadier, September 1941-March 1942, and Temporary Brigadier, March 1942-December 1943 and again in 1944. For his wartime services he was mentioned in despatches. He retired with rank of Honorary Brigadier on 31 October 1946.

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