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Letters and Diaries
-1850
1851-1900
1901-1950
1951-2000
Oral History
1951-2000
2001-
Italian Market Gardeners
Latvians in South Australia
Living in Woomera
S. A. Speaks: An Oral History of Life in South Australia before 1930
Treading out the vintage
Yara: wisdom of reciprocity oral history project
School Resources
Themes
Emigration to South Australia
Exploring Antarctica
Federation
From clay tablet to iPad
Gold Rush and Emigration
Sport
Time, continuity and change
Toys and games
Women's suffrage in South Australia
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1851-1900
1901-1950
1951-2000
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Audio
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South Australians at War
James Bennett
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For a full biography of
James Bennett
visit his Australian Dictionary of Biography entry.
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Jim Bennett
Date of Birth
14th January 1894
Date of Death
13th April 1922
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Engineer
Aviation pioneer
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Portrait of Lieutenant James Mallett Bennett [B 6099]
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First England-Australia flight
Arrival in Adelaide after England-Australia flight
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
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War Service Record [National Archives of Australia]
Monument Australia: Lieutenant James Bennett
St Kilda News: The 1919 Air Race From England to Australia
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Father
James Thomas Bennett
Mother
Henrietta Augusta Bennett, née McKendrick
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James Bennett
. State Library of South Australia, accessed 15/06/2026, https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/4463