Name
Harold Knowles Bean
6 June 1857
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/09/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant Colonel
Australian Army Medical Corps
3rd Light Horse Field Amb.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CHATBY MEMORIAL
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
He was born on 6 June 1857 at Swinefleet, Yorkshire. The only son of Dex and Mary Bean. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester and Edinburgh University where he took his MD and BSc degrees. He went to Australia in 1887 and settled at Wallsend, new South Wales where he continued to practice in the medical profession. He married Lucy Jane Harker on 2 October 1889 and they had a daughter, Elizabeth Edith Freda born on 28 March 1895. They lived in Wallsend, Newcastle, New South Wales.
He served with the New South Wales forces as a Lieutenant in the South African War of 1900 and continued his service in the State Militia.
Wartime Service
Having been a serving soldier in the State Militia and holding the rank of Major, he volunteered for active service on 1 November 1914 and was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the 2rd Light Horse Field Ambulance. The unit embarked from Brisbane, Queensland, on board HMAT A30 Borda on 15 December 1914, going with the Australian forces to Egypt and then to Gallipoli.
After a few months he was invalided to England and on recovery returned to Egypt but contracted an illness and died on board the hospital ship Kanowniz on 25 September 1916 and was buried at sea. He has no known grave and is commemorated at the Chatby Memorial, Alexandria, Egypt.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.aif.adfa.edu.au
