Ships
- HMS Ceres (D59) Lieutenant-Commander from 4 November 1943 · Relieved on 14 April 1944
Wilmot Pynson Bennitt had Ceres from 4 November 1943 until 14 April 1944, as a lieutenant-commander on the retired list. She had just come home from the East Indies, and the decision to use her as an accommodation ship was taken in that month.
Uboat.net records that he was born on 26 January 1900 and died on 10 July 1975. It gives no places.
The rank table lists midshipman on 1 January 1916, acting sub-lieutenant on 15 January 1918, sub-lieutenant on 15 September 1918, lieutenant on 15 April 1920, and lieutenant-commander on the retired list on 15 April 1928. He had retired on 8 March 1923. An acting commander's date is printed as unknown, and he was promoted commander on the retired list on 8 May 1946. The DSC is dated 24 February 1942. The page says it has no career narrative.
He relieved Roy Carlton Harry on 4 November 1943. Mason has the accommodation-ship decision in November 1943, the complement reduced, and the duty begun at Devonport in February 1944. In April she was nominated as depot ship at Gooseberry 1. He left on 14 April 1944, the day Roland Charlton Allen's command starts, before she sailed for the beachhead in June. The DSC is dated more than a year before this command. The page does not say what it was for.
He was promoted commander on the retired list on 8 May 1946. He died on 10 July 1975.