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Captain Geoffrey Martin Bennett DSC, FRHS (7 June 1909 – 5 September 1983) was a British Royal Navy officer and author. ==Career== Born into a naval family in 1909, Geoffrey Bennett attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth and entered the service. After his promotion to Lieutenant he qualified as a signals specialist. 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. In 1932 he married Rosemary Bechervaise, always known as ‘Bud’, the daughter of a Portsmouth solicitor whose family originated in Jersey. They had two sons but after World War II Rosemary had a serious mental breakdown which was to recur at intervals for the rest of her life. He was promoted to Commander at the end of World War II. He then captained HMS ''St. Brides Bay'' in the Mediterranean Sea and then served in the Admiralty at Bath. 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. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoffrey Bennett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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