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BEAN, Neville
(Service number 11816)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	Unknown	Place of Birth	Punjab, India

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	C. Bean (brother), C/- Haynes, Robinson and Cox, Perth, Western Australia
Religion
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZEF
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	12th Reinforcements Welllington Infantry Battalion, B Company
Date	1 May 1916
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Auckland Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	21 February 1917	Age
Place of Death	Messines, Belgium
Cause	Killed in action
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Pont-du-Hem Military Cemetery, La Gorgue, Nord, France
Memorial Reference	IV. D. 12
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Temuka War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Neville Bean was the son of Ellen A Bean of 303 New South Head Rd, Edgecliff, Sudney, NSW, Australia and the late John Duncan Bean (District Superintendent Punjab Police). Born in the Punjab, India

Sources

Temuka through the years: an informal history (Temuka History Book Committee, 2009); Cenotaph Sep 2013

External Links

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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