Private 21659 Robert Bewley

Courtesy Jeff Keenan

Regiment/Unit: Royal Army Medical Corps - 29th Gen. Hosp
Theatre of War: Malta
Theatre of War First Served: (2a) Balkans
Date Entered Therein: 07/12/1915

Age at death: 45
Date of death: 25th of October 1917 (Thursday)
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: Salford
Burial / Memorial: Pieta Military Cemetery - C. XVI. 3.

BMD details:
1st Qtr 1897 Robert Bewley to Elizabeth Ann Smith at Prescot, Lancashire. Vol 8b - Page 940.

Family details:
Son of Robert Mason Bewley and Alice Bewley, of St. Helens, Lancs; husband of Elizabeth Ann Bewley, of I, East Ordsall Lane, Salford, Manchester.

Census details:
1871 - 10 months old Robert is living at 53 Water Street, St Helens with parents Robert Mason (39), Ann Alice (33) and three siblings: William Mason (10), Ann Mason (8), Albert George (3). 1881 - 10 years old 'Scholar' Robert is living at 64 New Cross Street, St Helens with parents Robert Mason (48), Ann Alice (41) and four siblings: William Mason (20), Annie Mason (18), Albert George (13), James (8). Also at the address are his grandparents William Holden (75) and Elizabeth Holden (76). 1891 - Not Found. 1901 - 30 years old 'Machine Fitter - Turner' Robert is living at 169 Greenfield Road, St Helens with wife of four years Elizabeth A (26) and children Dorothy (2), Walter S (1). 1911 - Sees 40 years old 'Foreman - Tenter (brewery)' living at 9 Strasbury Street, Salford, Manchester with wife Elizabeth Ann (37) and seven children: Dorothy (12), Walter S (11), May (10), Arthur Mason (8), James William (6), Ernest (3), Marion (1).

[center][pic2]imgs/WW1_people/BewleyRobert_RAMC.jpg[/pic2][/center][pic]imgs/WW1_misc/BewleyRob.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Reporter - Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/21659RobertBewley.jpg[/pic][caption]The gravestone of Private Robert Bewley at Pieta Military Cemetery (Photograph Courtesy of Graeme Clarke1 off GWF )[/caption]