Name
Clement Beckford Bevan
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/07/1916
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Captain
Suffolk Regiment
3rd Bn., attached 2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 1 C and 2 A.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
St Leonards Church, Horringer, Suffolk
Pre War
Born on 31 May 1893 in Ickworth Lodge, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk son of Algernon Beckford and Anne Katherine (Pettiward) Bevan. Educated at Haileybury College 1907- 09 and Clare College, Cambridge.
Wartime Service
Volunteered as a motorcycle dispatch rider, obtained a commission as 2nd Lieutenant the Suffolks in Aug 1914 and entered France on 19 Jan 1915. He was promoted to Lieutenant in Jun 1915 and Captain in Jul 1915. He was wounded in action in 1915 but returned to France in Jan 1916. He was killed in action at the battle of Delville Wood when two companies were almost completely wiped out.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
