BEVIS, David Ernest
| Service Number: | 4055 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Brighton, Victoria, Australia, date not yet discovered |
| Home Town: | Guildford, Swan, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Died of wounds received in Action in the Field, at Queens Hospital, Sidcup, Kent, from pneumonia and injuries , Sidcup, Kent.United Kingdom, 22 July 1918, age not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Brookwood Military Cemetery, Pirbright, Surrey, England, United Kingdom INSCRIPTION ALWAYS WITH US IN MEMORY INSERTED BY HIS LOVING WIFE & CHILDREN. Plot 4, Row C, Grave 4 (Grave No 181334). |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Bentleigh War Memorial, Moorabbin & Highett War Service League Honour Roll, Moorabbin War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 22 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 4055, 11th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: RMS Mongolia embarkation_ship_number: '' public_note: '' | |
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| 22 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 4055, 11th Infantry Battalion, RMS Mongolia, Fremantle | |
| 22 Jul 1918: | Involvement Private, 4055, 51st Infantry Battalion (WW1), --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 4055 awm_unit: 51 Battalion awm_rank: Private awm_died_date: 1918-07-22 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Date Enlisted 07/07/1915
Embarked Fremantle per RMS ‘Mongolia’ 23.11.1915 for Egypt.
Roll Unit 11th Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.
Bevis disembarked in Egypt with the 11th Battalion. He joined the 51st Battalion at Serapeum, Egypt 3.4.1916. Bevis marched in to the 14th Training Battalion. 14.7.1916. He joined the British Expeditionary Force in Alexandria 5.6.1916 and embarked per HT ‘Ivernia’ for France 5.6.1916 and disembarked at Marseilles 12.6.1916. He was taken on strength with his Battalion and moved to the Somme Valley in July. He fought at Pozieres, and was wounded, receiving a gunshot wound to eye 16.7.1916. Bevis was hospitalised at Etaples 16.7.1916 and returned to his unit following discharge from Hospital 10.9.1916. The trench warfare and harsh winter resulted in Bevis developing problems with his foot/a septic toe 17.1.1917. He was hospitalised 27.1.1917 then at the General Hospital at Rouen on 31.1.1917. He was discharged back to his unit in the field. He was transferred to a convalescent Camp 18.2.1917 and discharged to Base Depot Class ‘A’ 20.2.1917. Bevis rejoined his unit in at the front prior to the Battle of Lagnicourt 11.4.1917. During this battle he was wounded in field with a shrapnel wound to his mouth 15.4.1918 (2nd time wounded) (West Australian Newspaper reported 13.8.1918). He was invalided to England and admitted to Reading War Hospital, UK with pneumonia. Later he was transferred to Queen’s Hospital, Sidcup 14.6.1918.
He was 32 and the son of William John and Selina Bevis; husband of Maude Bevis, later of 38, Helena St., Guildford, Western Australia.
His family were related to the Tattersells and he is believed to have lived with them at 30 Swan Street, Guildford as no other address was found for him in Swan Street. His wife remarried after his death 9.11.1922 (Mrs Maude Moore)
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