Percy Bentley (British Army officer)

Percy Bentley MC & Three Bars (18 January 1891 – 8 July 1956) was an officer in the British Army in the First World War.

Bentley was born in Knottingley, Yorkshire, where his family were auctioneers and valuers and involved with local politics.

[7] Two other officers received their third Bar in the same January 1919 edition of the London Gazette, Humphrey Arthur Gilkes and Charles Gordon Timms, emulating Francis Victor Wallington whose third Bar was gazetted on 13 September 1918.

He resigned his commission in 1922 and returned to Bentley, leaving the army in order to join the family business.

He commanded the guard of honour at the British Legion Conference held at Scarborough in 1928.