Service number:--- 1881

Born:---Builth Well, Wales

School:--- Llanddewi School, Builth Wells, Wales

Arrived in Australia age:---17 years.

Religion:--- Welsh

Occupation:--- Night Porter

Marital status:--- Single

Age on enlistment:--- 21 years and 9 months.

Next of kin:--- Mother, Mrs A Bevan, Kevalt Cottage, Hay Road, Breconshire, Wales

Previous military service Served in the Cadets, Victoria.

Enlisted:--- 5 July 1915 at Brisbane, Queensland.

Last Rank :--- Private

Unit :--- 26th Battalion, 3rd Reinforcement, Australian Infantry, AIF.

Fate:--- Killed in Action, 24 October 1915, Hill 971, Gallipoli Peninsula.

Burial:--- 7th Field Ambulance Cemetery (Special Memorial B.16), Gallipoli, Turkey

Parents: James and Agnes Bevan, Aberhoywe House, Llangynider, Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales.

War service: ---Egypt, Gallipoli

Medals:--- 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal

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Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916.

BEVAN, REGINALD JAMES, Private, No. 1881, 26th Battalion 7th Infantry Brigade, Australian Imperial Force, eldest son of James Bevan, of Henalt Hay Road, Builth Wells, Brecon, a Carpenter on Lord Glanusk's estate, by his wife, Agnes, daughter of Thomas Wasley, of Bishop Cleeve, near Cheltenham; b. Builth Wells, 9 Sept. 1894; educated Builth Wells School; at the age of 16 worked his passage out to Australia on s.s. Gothic; was employed at the Bull and Mouth Hotel in Melbourne, afterwards as a waiter in Sidney. On the outbreak of war he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force; left for Egypt with the 3rd Reinforcements, and was killed in action near Sari Bair, Anzac, Gallipoli, 24 Oct. 1915; unmarried. Buried in cemetery attached to 7th Field Ambulance, A Section.

Contributor: A Fifer in Exile (49902043)

Private, Australian Infantry, A.I.F. Age: 21.