Maxwell (Max) BENNETT

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BENNETT, Maxwell

Service Number:	409897
Enlisted:	7 November 1941
Last Rank:	Warrant Officer
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Invercargill, New Zealand, 18 April 1922
Home Town:	Geelong, Greater Geelong, Victoria
Schooling:	Geelong West State School, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Salesman
Died:	Geelong, Victoria, Australia, 9 August 2005, aged 83 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
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World War 2 Service

7 Nov 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 409897
30 Nov 1942:	Embarked Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 409897, embarked Melbourne for UK, attached 1 RAF Depot
6 Mar 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Warrant Officer, 409897

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Warrant Officer Maxwell Bennett (Service No:409897) enlisted in the RAAF at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbourne on 7 November 1941 as an Aircraftman II and attended No 1 Initial Training School (ITS) Somers. Through 1942 he was promoted to Leading Aircraftman and Sergeant, and on 30 November 1942 embarked from Melbourne for the UK, attached to 1 RAF Depot. Promoted to Flight Sergeant then Warrant Officer (mustered as Pilot) he was qualified to fly Anson, Wellington, Halifax, Wirraway, Oxford and DH 82 (de Haviland Tiger Moth) aircraft. In 1944 he was repatriated from Birmingham to Australia on compassionate grounds (both brothers serving in the RAAF were MiA - Charles a PoW and Kenneth KiA). WO Bennett was Discharged on 6 March 1945.

Max was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1922, youngest of five children of Samuel Charles Bennett (b1894 in Highton, Victoria) and Frances (Fannie) Severn Jones (b1891 in Otaga, New Zealand). Samuel worked as a Slaughterman in Geelong before moving to Otago, New Zealand in 1916, where he was working as a Slaughterman in 1917 when he and Fannie married. By 1919 Samuel and Fannie were living in Geelong, Victoria where Samuel worked as a Slaughterman. They returned to New Zealand in 1921, and Samuel worked as a Slaughterman. By 1924 the family had returned to Geelong, Victoria where they settled and Samuel worked as a Clerk and Skin Dealer/Skin and Waste Merchant.

Max worked as a Salesman in Geelong, Victoria before his service in WWII. He was working as a Dealer in Geelong in 1947 when he married Dorothy May Caroline Duncan (b1922 in Melbourne, Victoria) - Dorothy was working in Geelong as a Secretary. Max and Dorothy settled in Geelong where they raised their family and Max worked as a Wool and Wood Merchant. Max died in 2005 and Dorothy in 2008.

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