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Photograph, Lieut. James Mallett Bennett Memorial - images collection, c. 1991?

  • Green rectangular plaque with raised text mounted on stone. At the top of the plaque is the winged insignia of the Australian Flying Corps.

    Lieut. James Mallett Bennett Memorial plaque

  • Plaque on tall stone pillar in a park

    Lieut. James Mallett Bennett Memorial, O'Donnell Gardens St Kilda

  • Green rectangular plaque with raised text mounted on stone. At the top of the plaque is the winged insignia of the Australian Flying Corps.
  • Plaque on tall stone pillar in a park

Historical information

Plaque on the James Mallet Bennett memorial in O'Donnell Gardens, Built in 1926-7 by H B Corbett & Sons and designed by William H Lacey. Accompanied as engineer Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith on the first flight from England to Australia 1919. Killed in aeroplane crash at Hendon England, 13th April 1922.

Physical description

colour photograph, unmounted

Inscriptions & markings

In Honoured Memory of Liet J.M. Bennett MSM AFM, of the Australian Flying Corps who accompanied as engineer Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith on the first flight from England to Australia 1919. Killed in aeroplane crach at Hendon, England, 3 April 1922.

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