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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.

 

Surname		BEAVAN
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Benjamin John Ernest
Regimental Number		86
Rank		Trooper
Unit Name		Bushveldt Carbineers
State
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		BVC: mailing address Bong Bong St. Bowral NSW. Source:# 186 enlisted BVC 15.5.1901. Woolmore1: WW1 49Bn. URL2: WW1 AIF 5223 Private 49Bn. killed in action in France 5.9.1916, enlisted Bowral NSW (served as WHITING Ernest). URL3: labourer next of kin from Alstonville NSW. URL5: WO127 BVC roll Beavan Benjiman John Ernest Tpr. 86. URL4: WW1 AIF 5223 WHITING Ernest (true name BEAVAN Benjamin John Ernest) Pte. 49Bn. a labourer aged 33 in 1916 born in Sydney NSW next of kin wife in Bowral, 1 year 6 months Imperial Light Horse, killed in action 5.9.1916 in France.
Source References		BVC: Nominal Roll of the Bushveldt Carbineers Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 186 Woolmore1: Bushveldt Carbineers and the Pietersburg Light Horse page(s) 157 B2455: National Archives of Australia series B2455
External Link URL1		www.awm.gov.au/database/133/page.asp?Folder=3&Page=113&Surname=beavan
External Link URL2		www.awm.gov.au/database/roh.asp
External Link URL3		www.awm.gov.au/cms_images/awm8/23_26_4/pdf/0433.pdf
External Link URL4		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=8386541&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL5		www.britishmedals.us/files/127bushveldt.htm
External Link URL6		aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=322171

Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.

 

Colin Roe
Canberra

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