BEVIS HEPPEL BEAN

RANK: Lieutenant.

REGIMENT:Royal Flying Corps Secoundry Regiment 6th Bn Royal Wesh Fusiliers.

BORN:

GAVE HIS LIFE: 18/06/1916.

AGED: 27.

CEMETERY: Strand Military Cemetery. 13 Km south of Ieper Belgium.

GRAVE: VII. A. 41 and 42.

LEEDS MODERN: Unknown.

Bevis was the third son of the Reverand Benjamin Bean, who had in the past been the Wesleyan minister for Headingley Leeds.

Bevis was already serving in the Territorial Battalion of the Welsh Fusiliers in 1914,and when war broke out he immmediatly enlisted for active service.

After training Bevis gained his commision in January 1915, and was sent to Gallipoli Turkey, where it is reported he was invalided and sent to Alexandria in Egypt to recuperate.

Bevis remained in Egypt until he was transferred to the Flying Corps in England.

In April 1917 Bevis was sent to France, and on the 18th June 1917 Bevis was last seen engaging German aircraft, and his plane had crashed.

At the time it was said only his observer was found and it was assumed Bevis had been killed by the crash and burning of the machine.

However his body must have been found and he lays at peace to this day at the Strand Military Cemetery.



The CWGC website shows the following information.

"Son of the Rev. Benjamin and Harriet Dobing Bean, of "Homedale" Cedar Rd., Sutton, Surrey."