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Lieutenant Colonel Philip Eric Bent VC DSO (3 January 1891 – 1 October 1917) was a Canadian British Army officer recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ==Biography== Bent was born on 3 January 1891 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and Ashby Grammar School, Ashby de la Zouch. He joined the training ship HMS ''Conway'' in 1907. He served two years as a Cadet and then went to sea. He was taking his Merchant Navy officer's tickets when the war broke out in 1914.〔(Victoria Cross.net )〕 He and a friend joined a Scottish regiment "for a bit of fun" as the war was anticipated to be over by Christmas. He was some months later commissioned in the Leicestershire Regiment. He was 26 years old, and a Temporary Lieutenant Colonel in the 9th Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when he performed the deed for which he was awarded the VC on 1 October 1917 east of Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Belgium. He was killed whilst leading a charge. His citation reads: He has no known grave and is commemorated on the memorial wall at Tyne Cot Cemetery, Belgium.〔(Bent, Philip Eric ), Commonwealth War Graves Commission〕 In 2015 a new road in Ashby de la Zouch has been named "Philip Bent Road" - this is located approximately 0.6 miles due west of the town centre off Moira Road (B5006) 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「Philip Bent」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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