Lieutenant Colonel J E Tennant DSO, MC

Lieutenant Colonel J E Tennant DSO, MC
Title:Lieutenant Colonel
First name:J
Middle name(s):E
Surname:Tennant
Post-nominals:DSO, MC
Year elected:1924
Last year on list:1939
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Lt-Col. John Edward Tennant DSO MC (12 October 1890 – 7 August 1941) was a British airman, explorer, banker and Liberal Party politician.

Tennant served as a Midshipman, 1908–10. In 1910 he became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Scots Guards. After the outbreak of war in September 1914 he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps. He served in France, 1914–16, and as OC for the RFC and the RAF in Mesopotamia, 1916–18. He was mentioned in dispatches five times, he was awarded the Military Cross, Bt Major in Army, Distinguished Service Order and the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur. He was shot down and captured by the Turks while in Mesopotamia, but rescued four days later by armoured cars. From 1918-1919 he was Director of Aeronautics in India. In 1920 he became a senior partner in the firm of Hohler & Co., banking agents. In 1924 he was a member of the Oxford Arctic Expedition to Nordaustlandet. In 1920 he had published In the Clouds above Bagdad, Being the Records of an Air Commander. He carried out Shikar expeditions up the White Nile, in India, and the Sinai Peninsula.

Yachts Owned

NameRig ClassfromtoMMSI
Bonnie Joann Auxiliary Yawl 1924 1929  
Aptera Motor Boat 1935 1939  

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