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Lieutenant Charles Wilfrid Bennett

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 05:05:26 -0800

9 Battalion, (Queen's Royal) Lancers

Lt Bennett was commissioned as a regular officer in the 9th (Queen's Royal) Lancers and served on the Western Front and in Germany during 1917 - 1919.

In 1919 he retired to the Special Reserve but was subsequently recalled to command the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry.

Bennett served in the Middle East (Palestine, Persia and Iraq) from 1939 - 1943 during which time he was Mentioned in Despatches.

From 1943, he served at the War Office in London and was invalided out of the service in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Lt Col Bennett suceeded to a baronetcy in 1945 and became a magistrate. He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery.

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Sadeq Mohammad Khan

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 03:25:10 -0700

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The Nawab of Bahawalpur, aged 11, in 1915. In 1917, the Nawab donated £5,000 to the Punjab Aeroplane Fund, raised in the province for the purpose of providing aeroplanes for the British Army.

Sadeq Mohammad Khan was born at Derawar in 1904 and became Nawab of Bahawalpur on the death of his father three years later. A Council of Regency, with Sir Rahim Bakhsh as its President, ruled on his behalf until 1924.

The Nawab served as an officer with the Indian Army, fighting in the Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) and commanding forces in the Middle East during the Second World War.

In August 1947, the Nawab received the title of Amir of Bahawalpur, acceding his State to the Dominion of Pakistan a month later. In 1955, the Amir was promoted to General in the Pakistani Army and merged his state into West Pakistan. He died in 1966, aged 61.

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2 Lieutenant Elwin Bruce Olifent

nobody@flickr.com (IWM Collections) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:01:20 -0700

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27 Battalion, Australian Infantry, Australian Imperial Force (AIF)

Lt Olifent of Henley Beach, Australia, enlisted on 25 February 1915 and sailed for the Middle East on 31 May. After a period in Egypt in July -August 1915, he was posted to the Western Front.

Lt Olifent was commissioned in the field during the Battle of the Somme on 10 August 1916, but was killed in action, aged 29 at Flers on 5 November 1916. He is commemorated on the Villers-Bretoneux Memorial.

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