1. Phillip Bennett served in Japan until September 1950 and then embarked with the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment for Korea where he served for a year during which he was wounded in action on 14 October 1950, remaining on duty, and Mentioned in Despatches in 1951.
Phillip Bennett served again for 12 months in Korea from 1 September 1952 as Senior Instructor, then Chief Instructor, with the 25th Canadian Infantry Brigade Junior NCO School while posted as Tactics Instructor at the School of Infantry in Seymour, Victoria.
On his return to Australia in 1953, Phillip Bennett became the Adjutant of the 1st Battalion, Pacific Islands Regiment in PNG.
Phillip Bennett then served as OC 2nd Commando Company from July 1958 to June 1961, and after attending the Australian Staff College, became the Senior Instructor, then Chief Instructor, at Officer Cadet School, Portsea from 1962 to 1965.
Phillip Bennett was then posted until 10 July 1967 to Army HQ which had moved to Canberra in the early 1960s from Melbourne.
When he learned of the Labor-Green agreement, he asked Phillip Bennett to dissolve the legislature and call new elections.
Under normal circumstances, Phillip Bennett would have been bound by convention to honour this request.
Phillip Bennett believed that Gray was no longer in a position to govern, and therefore had lost the right to ask for a dissolution.
Gray was thus forced to resign, and Phillip Bennett commissioned Field as premier.
Phillip Bennett was the Patron of the 2 Commando Association from 1985, Patron of The St John Ambulance in the ACT from 1996, and a President of the Order of Australia Association.
Phillip Bennett was the inaugural National Patron of the Royal Australian Regiment Association.
Sir Philip Phillip Bennett died on 1 August 2023, at the age of 94.
Phillip Bennett was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order in 1969 for service as Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment in Vietnam.
Phillip Bennett was made an Officer in the Military Division of the Order of Australia in 1981, a Knight Commander in the Military Division of the Order of the British Empire in 1982, and was promoted to Companion of the Order of Australia in 1985.
Phillip Bennett was Mentioned in Despatches for; 'During the period, 9 November 1950 to June 1951, this officer performed the duty of mortar platoon commander through that period.
Phillip Bennett was awarded an Honorary LLD in October 1995 for his contribution to military education and the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Phillip Bennett was made a Knight of St John in 1988 and awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, by the University of Tasmania in 1992.