Faith Bennett

Faith Margaret Ellen Bennett (12 May 1903 – 1969) was a British actress and Air Transport Auxiliary pilot during the Second World War. Her photograph featured on a Royal Mail stamp in 2022.

Early life Bennett was born Margaret Ellen Riddick on 12 May 1903 in London, England. She received her training and was assigned to No. 5 Ferry Pilot Pool (F.P.P.) in December that year, and only two days later was forced to make a crash landing due to poor weather and a stalled engine.

After the WW2 she divorced Charles Bennett and married fellow ATA pilot Herbert Henry Newmark in 1946.

The National Portrait Gallery holds four photographs for Bennett dating from the early 1930s.

A photograph of Faith Bennett at the controls of a Lockheed Hudson bomber featured on a commemorative £1.85 stamp, part of a set of Unsung Heroes – Women of WWII, issued by the Royal Mail in 2022.

Filmography The Officers' Mess (1931) Mannequin (1932) Eyes of Fate (1933) The Pride of the Force (1933) Hawleys of High Street (1933) Seeing Is Believing (1934) Master and Man (1934) One Good Turn (1936)