Name
Beavan Carleton-Smith
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
06/02/1919
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
175113
Royal Air Force
100th Sqdn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
COLOGNE SOUTHERN CEMETERY
I. D. 16.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
IN PROUD & LOVING MEMORY " BRAMPTON. SHROPSHIRE"
UK & Other Memorials
Aldenham School Memorial, Aldenham
Pre War
He was born in Didsbury in 1899 and had an older sister, Dorothy.
Wartime Service
Beavan Carleton-Smith served in the Royal Air force Bevan Carlton Smith. His name varies over time, which may be due to maternal influence.
He enlisted 6th may 1918 as cadet 175113 ,posted 204 Trg. Depot Stan. at Eastchurch, Kent before on 24th Aug 1918 being posted 6th brigade 48 Wing on Home Defence Duties. He was posted to 199 Night Trg. Sqn. on 21st Sep 1918, which was a unit of the B.E.F. He was gazetted as 2nd Lt. (Observer Officer) on 27th Sep 1918.
On the 6th Feb 1919 A Gotha that was being piloted by Lt. L.S. Hewitt failed to make a successful take off from Cologne. Both the Pilot and Observer (Carleton-Smith) were killed.
Biography
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
