Captain Geoffrey Martin Bennett (1908-1983) was a British Royal Navy officer and author. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the oldest of the British armed services (and is therefore known as the Senior Service)
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Career
Born into a naval family in 1908, he went to Dartmouth Royal Naval College where he was qualified in signals. Dartmouth is a town in Devon in the south-west of England. It is a Tourist destination set on the banks of the estuary of the River Dart He became Flag Lieutenant to a number of Admirals and in World War II he was first in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and then signals officer Force H in the Mediterranean where he earned the DSC. Freetown is the Capital and largest City of Sierra Leone, and a major Port on the Atlantic Ocean. Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. Force H was a British naval task force (though that term was not used during World War II. The Distinguished Service Cross ( DSC) is the third level Military decoration awarded to officers and (since 1993 ratings of the Royal Navy and formerly He was promoted to Commander at the end of World War II. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including He then captained HMS St. Brides Bay in the Mediterranean Sea and then served in the Admiralty at Bath. Bath is a city in Somerset in the south west of England It is situated west of London and south-east of Bristol. He was promoted to Captain at the beginning of 1953 and then spent two years as naval attaché in Moscow, also covering Warsaw and Helsinki where he alerted the Admiralty to the potential growth of the Soviet navy. Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Warsaw (Warszawa; also known by other names) is the Capital and Largest city of Poland. Helsinki (in Finnish;) or Helsingfors (in Swedish;) is the Capital and largest city of Finland. Retiring soon after returning to Britain he joined the household of the Lord Mayor of London and then, in 1960, became Secretary to the Lord Mayor of Westminster where he became an authority on civic protocol. The Right Honourable Lord Mayor of London is the legal title for the Mayor of (and head of the City of London Corporation. Westminster is an area of Central London, within the City of Westminster.
Writer
He always wrote and was awarded the Royal United Services Institution gold medal for an essay three times. At the end of WWII he published his first novel Phantom Fleet, a naval yarn under the pseudonym Sea Lion; as a serving officer he could not use his own name. For other uses of the term "sea lion" see Sea lion (disambiguation. Over the next two decades he produced about twenty such novels for both adults and children and also wrote a number of radio plays for the BBC, including several serials for Children's Hour which featured the adventures of two Midshipmen 'Tiger' Ransome and 'Snort' Kenton. His novels included the allegorical This Creeping Evil, The Diamond Rock set in the Caribbean near Martinique in the Napoleonic wars and based on a true incident, and The Quest of John Clare about a family haunted by a curse down several generations. Diamond Rock ( Rocher du Diamant) is a 175 meter (574 feet high Basalt island located south of Fort-de-France, the main port of the Caribbean The Caribbean (ˌkærəˡbiən kæ'rəbiən Cariben|Caraïben or Caraïben; Caraïbe or more commonly Antilles; Caribe is a Region consisting Martinique is an Island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1128 km² The Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815 involved Napoleon's French Empire and a shifting set of European allies and opposing coalitions
After retiring he took to naval history and under his own name published studies of the main battles of both world wars and Nelson, also a biography of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, Charlie B and Cowan's War, an account of the British naval action in the Baltic in 1919 under Admiral Sir Walter Cowan which successfully thwarted the Reds in Russia from seizing control of the three Baltic states, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson 1st Viscount Nelson 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758– 21 October 1805 was a British Charles William de la Poer Beresford 1st Baron Beresford GCB GCVO ( February 10, 1846 &ndash September 6, 1919) known Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan 1st Baronet, KCB, DSO*, MVO ( 11 June 1871 &ndash 14 February 1956) known as The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia ( Eesti or Eesti Vabariik) is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region Latvia ( Latvija officially the Republic of Latvia (Latvijas Republika is a Country in Northern Europe in the Baltic region. Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. It is the premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past
He was passionately fond of the theatre and music and on his return from Soviet Union gave two long talks on the BBC's Third Programme on the Bolshoi Ballet which he had had opportunity to see in Moscow before they were well-known outside the Soviet Union. Theatre (or theater, see spelling differences) is the branch of the Performing arts defined by Bernard Beckerman as what "occurs when one Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Bolshoi Theatre (Большой театр Bol'shoy Teatr Great Theatre) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by famed architect
Retirement
After retirement he lived in the Shrophsire town of Ludlow in a 17th century cottage opposite an hotel where Nelson had once stayed. At the end of the 20th century there was renewed interest in his histories and most have been republished. Cowan's War was retitled Freeing the Baltic and has been translated into Estonian.
Partial bibliography (histories)
- —. (1961). By human error; disasters of a century. London: Seeley, Service. , OCLC 11054915
- —. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose (1962). Coronel and the Falklands. London: Batsford. , OCLC 2599653
- —. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose (1964). Cowan's war: the story of British naval operations in the Baltic, 1918 - 1920. London: Collins. , OCLC 51700397
- Republished as: —. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose (2001). Freeing the Baltic. Edinburgh: Birlinn. ISBN 184341001X
- Also translated into Estonian.
- —. (1964). The Battle of Jutland. Philadelphia: Dufour Editions. , OCLC 3507765
- Also translated into German as Kattegat
- —. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose (1968). Charlie B: a biography of Admiral Lord Beresford of Metemmeh and Curraghmore, G. C. B. , G. C. V. O. , LL. D. , D. C. L. London: Dawnay. , OCLC 460841
- —. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose (1969). Naval battles of the First World War. New York: Scribner. , OCLC 218534
- —. The OCLC Online Computer Library Center is according to its website a "nonprofit membership computer library service and research organization dedicated to the public purpose (1975). Naval battles of World War II. New York: D. Mckay. ISBN 0679505814
- —. (1972). Nelson, the commander. New York: Scribner. ISBN 0684128861
- —. (1977). The Battle of Trafalgar. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press. ISBN 0870219146
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