{"id":8032,"date":"2025-11-20T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:31:34","slug":"bevan-r-v-pte-9291-5th-london-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/bevan-r-v-pte-9291-5th-london-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bevan R V Pte 9291 5th London Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BEVAN, RICHARD VINCENT, Private, 5th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt., The London Rifle Brigade, s. of Richard Bevan, of 31, Girdler’s Road, Brook Green, W., L.R.C.P.L., D.P.H., etc., Alderman of Hammersmith; b. Lydd, co. Kent, 22 March, 1893; educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), where he gained the Huxley scholarship; was in the St. Paul’s O.T. Corps, and joined the London Rifle Brigade, 1911. At the time he was called up with his regt., he was a medical student and Huxley Scholar at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and was an under-graduate of the London University. He was shot, while in “Plugstreet” Wood with his section, 10 Dec. 1914, and died two days later at Bailleul Clearing Hospital from his wounds; buried in Bailleul Cemetery; unm. Bevan was in the Gymnasium eight at St. Paul’s and reserve man at the Aldershot Public School Competition. He played Rugby for the Old Pauline A team and for the Charing Cross Hospital Rugby team.<\/p>\n

Source : De Ruvigny’ Roll Of Honour Vol 1<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BEVAN, RICHARD VINCENT, Private, 5th Battn. (City of London) The London Regt., The London Rifle Brigade, s. of Richard Bevan, of 31, Girdler’s Road, Brook Green, W., L.R.C.P.L., D.P.H., etc., Alderman of Hammersmith; b. Lydd, co. Kent, 22 March, 1893; educ. at Colet Court and St. Paul’s School (foundation scholar), where he gained the Huxley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5th-london-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8034,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions\/8034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}