Mark Herbert Joseph Bennett

Mark Herbert Joseph Bennett was a British writer best known today for Under the Periscope. Project Gutenberg lists him as the author of that work, and contemporary catalog material presents it as a naval account centered on submarine life and wartime service.

The strongest biographical detail I could confirm is that he served as a lieutenant, with a record for Mark Herbert Joseph Bennett appearing in the UK National Archives. That fits the voice and subject of Under the Periscope, which is written with the practical, firsthand feel of someone who had actually lived the routines and dangers he describes.

Little else about his personal life was clearly confirmed from reliable, easily accessible sources during this search, so it seems best to remember him through the book itself: a vivid window into early submarine service, written by a man who appears to have known that world from the inside.