Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett, CB, CBE, DSO

Date of birth	1910-09-14	Toowoomba, QLD.
Date and unit at enlistment (ORs)	1930	Enlisted in the RAAF.
Other	1931	Transferred to RAF and intially posted to No 29 Squadron.
Other	1935	Resigned from the RAF.
Other	1936	Joined Imperial Airways, a civilian sea plane airline in England.
Other	1941	Bennett returned to the RAF as an acting wing commander.
Other units	1941-12	Appointed as commander of No 77 Squadron.
Other	1942-04	Became commander of No 10 Squadron.
Date of honour or award	1942-06-16	Awarded Distinguished Service Order for actions over Norway. Bennett was shot down during a raid on the Tirpitz but managed to escape home through Sweden.
Date promoted	1942-07-05	Appointed as commander of Bomber Command's new Pathfinder Force.
Date promoted	1943-01	Promoted to air vice marshal and given command of No 8 Pathfinder Force.
Date of honour or award	1943-07-02	Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Date of honour or award	1944-06-08	Companion of the Order of the Bath.
Date of death	1986-09-15