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| Gilbert Bending (1691-1749) - 1720 - Stole seven silver spoons,
sentenced to be hanged, commuted
to fourteen years transportation, (to Maryland, America).
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| Dennis Ronald Bending (1921-1943) in 1943 on a training
flight in a Wellington, crashed in the Cheviot Hills, all the crew were killed.
Dennis was buried in Taunton. The site is currently being dug to recover the aircraft, seeweb page Per
ardua ad astra.
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| George Jesse Bending (1893-1914) -1914 - Served
on HMS Cressy, which with the Aboukir and the Hague, was torpedoed and sunk
by a U Boat on the 28th September 1914. Naval Operations Vol I. War Graves Commission,
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| Harold James Bending (1919) in 1948 saved
two passengers from a burning Dakota of Sabena Airline at Heathrow for which he was
awarded a George Medal
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| Richard Bending (1728-1758) - 1758 - Drowned
(or possibly captured by pirates and ransommed) when sailing as cook on the Lichfield
which sank off the coast of Barbary. (also see Wikipedia)
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| William Bending (1870-1943) Habitual criminal recorded as an inmate of Wormword Scrubs in 1911.
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