Second Lieutenant Edward Neville Bewley

Army Number: n/a (formerly Private 4357)

Battalion: 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Liverpool and lived at Priory Gate, Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Husband of Mrs Bewley, of 2 St. John’s Road, St Leonard’s on Sea, Sussex.  He was a solicitor prior to enlisting from Inns of Court Officers’ Training Corps. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 8th October 1915 into the 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. Went to France 4th November 1915 and Joined the 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He later joined the 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 18th June 1917. and was killed in action, 26th June 1917, whilst serving in the line near Beaucamp, France. 

Buried : Metz-En-Couture Communal Cemetery British Extension, France. Plot 1. Row C. Grave 1.

Second Lieutenant Edward Neville Bewley is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Dunstable War Memorial, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
Dunstable Priory Church War Memorial, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
Dunstable Grammar School War Memorial, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.