"... ROGER BENNETT [Roger Bennett Esq, Mid & West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Ceredigion County Command, Trefechan, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 1BE, Wales]; b Swansea; Educ U of Centl Lancs; firefighter Gwent Fire Bde 1978-89, Community Fire Safety Offr Dyfed Co Fire Bde 1989-2002, Ceredigion Co Cdr 2003-..." Pages viii and 49
A future revision could read;
"... ROGER BENNETT [Roger Bernard Allen Bennett Esq, (Retired), formerly of Mid & West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Service Headquarters, Lime Grove Avenue, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire]; b Swansea; Educ Crindau Primary, Queen’s High, U of Centl Lancs BSc [Hons] (First Class), Department of International Politics Aberystwyth University MSc [Econ] (+ Michael MccGwire Prize); Firefighter Gwent Fire Bde 1978-89, Community Fire Safety Offr and Operations Offr Dyfed Co Fire Bde 1989-2001, Fire Safety Officer West Glamorgan, Neath and Port Talbot 2001-2003, Ceredigion Co Cdr 2003-2008, Corporate Head of Civil Contingencies and Resilience 2008-2010. UK Fire Engineering Scholarship Winner, published author in Fire Safety and Contingency matters, “Fire Safety and Associated Provisions in Libraries and Archives” held by National Library of Wales, Lineage; father (deceased), Sidney Allen Douglas Bennett 1917-1984, British Army circa 1939-1940 until Medical Discharge, then Auxiliary Fire Service AFS Swansea 1940 to 1945, Great Grandfather (deceased) Ernest Llewellyn Bennett 1884-1965, Corps of Royal Engineers, Master Mason, Builder and Building Company Owner, Swansea"
I have a Social and Economic Science Masters MSc [Econ] in Strategic Studies from the Department of International Politics in Aberystwyth where I took the Michael MccGwire Prize, along with a 1st Class Honours Degree BSc [Hons] in Fire Engineering and Management from UCLan where I became the first graduate take a First on that particular undergraduate course.
I am proud of my academic qualifications as I am a working class person from the Gasworks in Crindau in Newport South Wales, who has been fortunate to access Education and to gain experience with and through those qualifications. I am proud of my humble roots, as we have to know where we have come from to understand where we are going.
After 32 years in the Fire and Rescue Service where I reached a Senior Role, my main focus these days is on art and poetry. For a short time during my fire service career, I was a Trade Unionist advocating the employment rights of others and it is probable that this led to my interest in Human Rights legislation; especially the 'right to a private life'. Prior to leaving the Fire and Rescue Service I was employed as the Corporate Head of Civil Contingencies and Resilience and attended many Gold Command meetings in South Wales, and Mid and West Wales during the H1N1 crisis. Today I am more interested in painting with watercolours or acrylics, or drawing with pencil, inktense pencil, watercolour pencils, soft pastels, or charcoal.
