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=== Military career === | === Military career === | ||
==== As a corporal ==== | |||
[[File:Corporal Benton..jpg|thumb|Corporal Benton completes surveillance work. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'')]] | [[File:Corporal Benton..jpg|thumb|Corporal Benton completes surveillance work. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'')]] | ||
Benton was a corporal when he met the Doctor for the first time, though he was doing surveillance work rather than serving in uniform. He helped the [[Second Doctor]] defeat the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] and [[Tobias Vaughn]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') | Benton was a corporal when he met the Doctor for the first time, though he was doing surveillance work rather than serving in uniform. He helped the [[Second Doctor]] defeat the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] and [[Tobias Vaughn]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'') | ||
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Discovering RAF Lieutenant [[Mike Yates]] in a derelict [[Portsoy]] house, Benton opened fire on the [[Armidian]]s holding him hostage there as Yates broke free. The Armidian group vanished. With the Armidians still in the local area, [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] ordered the [[Tharon stone]] the Armidians used to draw power from igneous rock to be destroyed. Benton led one of three groups to find the stone circles the Armidians had teleported to. Benton's group killed one of the Armidians that was trying to use the stone circles to wipe out humanity. According to this account, Yates was then promoted to [[captain]] when being recruited to UNIT by the Brigadier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vengeance of the Stones (audio story)|Vengeance of the Stones]]'') | Discovering RAF Lieutenant [[Mike Yates]] in a derelict [[Portsoy]] house, Benton opened fire on the [[Armidian]]s holding him hostage there as Yates broke free. The Armidian group vanished. With the Armidians still in the local area, [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] ordered the [[Tharon stone]] the Armidians used to draw power from igneous rock to be destroyed. Benton led one of three groups to find the stone circles the Armidians had teleported to. Benton's group killed one of the Armidians that was trying to use the stone circles to wipe out humanity. According to this account, Yates was then promoted to [[captain]] when being recruited to UNIT by the Brigadier. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Vengeance of the Stones (audio story)|Vengeance of the Stones]]'') | ||
==== As a sergeant ==== | |||
Following Sergeant [[Robin Marshall]]'s death, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of the Past (audio story)|Shadow of the Past]]'') Benton was promoted to [[Sergeant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'') | Following Sergeant [[Robin Marshall]]'s death, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of the Past (audio story)|Shadow of the Past]]'') Benton was promoted to [[Sergeant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'') | ||
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Benton was asked to go to the [[TOMTIT]] demonstration at the [[Newton Institute]]. The Master's TOMTIT machine regressed Benton to a baby. When restored to adult form, he appeared before his UNIT colleagues stark naked. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') | Benton was asked to go to the [[TOMTIT]] demonstration at the [[Newton Institute]]. The Master's TOMTIT machine regressed Benton to a baby. When restored to adult form, he appeared before his UNIT colleagues stark naked. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') | ||
Benton also worked with the [[Third | Benton also worked with the [[Third Doctor]] and his [[Second Doctor|previous incarnation]] whom the [[Time Lord]]s had called in to help against [[Omega]]. Benton was delighted with the reunion. It was during these events that Benton travelled for the first and only time in the TARDIS — namely, the short journey on the [[anti-matter universe]] from the displaced UNIT H.Q. to Omega's palace. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') | ||
The displacement of the HQ building turned it into a space-time [[Waypoint]]. As a result, it was involved in a temporal crisis that affected the Doctor's incarnations throughout the timeline. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] got a premonition that [[Clara Oswald]] would pass by UNIT HQ, and had [[K9 Mark IV]] (newly fitted with a [[vortex manipulator circuit]]) warn Benton about her, telling him not to get in her way. He was still in the lab when [[Jo Grant]] dropped in, looking for the Doctor. While they were both in the lab, the [[vortex energy]] suffusing UNIT HQ caused a [[Cyberman]] from the [[Cyberman invasion of Earth (The Invasion)|earlier invasion]] to reanimate and break out of the [[The Vault (The Scales of Injustice)|UNIT Vault]]. However, Jo was able to kill it with her [[gold]] [[bracelet]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]'') | The displacement of the HQ building turned it into a space-time [[Waypoint]]. As a result, it was involved in a temporal crisis that affected the Doctor's incarnations throughout the timeline. The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] got a premonition that [[Clara Oswald]] would pass by UNIT HQ, and had [[K9 Mark IV]] (newly fitted with a [[vortex manipulator circuit]]) warn Benton about her, telling him not to get in her way. He was still in the lab when [[Jo Grant]] dropped in, looking for the Doctor. While they were both in the lab, the [[vortex energy]] suffusing UNIT HQ caused a [[Cyberman]] from the [[Cyberman invasion of Earth (The Invasion)|earlier invasion]] to reanimate and break out of the [[The Vault (The Scales of Injustice)|UNIT Vault]]. However, Jo was able to kill it with her [[gold]] [[bracelet]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]'') | ||
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While undercover in Kettering, Benton met Margery Phipps around Christmas time the year [[The Green Death (TV story)|Jo left UNIT]] and they began dating. They were still dating in spring when [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|dinosaurs appeared in London]]. He was sent to Kettering in the place of Mike Yates when he was recovering. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Council of War (audio story)|Council of War]]'') | While undercover in Kettering, Benton met Margery Phipps around Christmas time the year [[The Green Death (TV story)|Jo left UNIT]] and they began dating. They were still dating in spring when [[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|dinosaurs appeared in London]]. He was sent to Kettering in the place of Mike Yates when he was recovering. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Council of War (audio story)|Council of War]]'') | ||
==== As a Warrant Officer ==== | |||
Shortly after the return of the Doctor to Earth and his [[regeneration]] into his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]], Benton was promoted to Warrant Officer — a rank which entitled him to be addressed as "Mister". ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'') As a Regimental Sergeant Major, Benton helped fight against the [[Zygon]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'') He was stationed at the [[Space Defence Station]] at [[Devesham]] during the [[Kraal (species)|Kraals]]' attempted invasion of Earth, and was due to meet his [[John Benton's sister|younger sister]] at eight o'clock outside the [[Chinese (food)|Chinese]] takeaway and take her to a dance at the Palais. However, he ended up being knocked unconscious in a corridor and replaced by one of [[Styggron]]'s [[Kraal android|android duplicates]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]'') | Shortly after the return of the Doctor to Earth and his [[regeneration]] into his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]], Benton was promoted to Warrant Officer — a rank which entitled him to be addressed as "Mister". ([[TV]]: ''[[Robot (TV story)|Robot]]'') As a Regimental Sergeant Major, Benton helped fight against the [[Zygon]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'') He was stationed at the [[Space Defence Station]] at [[Devesham]] during the [[Kraal (species)|Kraals]]' attempted invasion of Earth, and was due to meet his [[John Benton's sister|younger sister]] at eight o'clock outside the [[Chinese (food)|Chinese]] takeaway and take her to a dance at the Palais. However, he ended up being knocked unconscious in a corridor and replaced by one of [[Styggron]]'s [[Kraal android|android duplicates]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Android Invasion (TV story)|The Android Invasion]]'') | ||
