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bushfighter

Jan 5 2008, 10:26 AM

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Remembering Today features F/463 Petty Officer Mechanic Joseph Charles Layborn Bewley who served in a Royal Naval Air Service Armoured Car Squadron in East Africa.

Above is an image of his grave in Nairobi South Cemetery, Kenya.

bushfighter

Jan 5 2008, 10:29 AM

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Here is an image of one of the Armoured Cars that Joseph Bewley worked on, taken in the bush near Serengeti west of Maktau and east of Taveta.

per ardua per mare per terram

Jan 5 2008, 10:53 PM

Name: BEWLEY, JOSEPH CHARLES LAYBORN
Initials: J C L
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Petty Officer Motor Mechanic
Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Air Service
Unit Text: H.M.S. "President." Armoured Car Sqdn. (East Africa).
Age: 27
Date of Death: 05/01/1916
Service No: F/463
Additional information: Son of Henrietta Bewley, of 5, Queen St., Derby, and the late H. T. L. Bewley. One of seven sons who served.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. B. 12.
Cemetery: NAIROBI SOUTH CEMETERY

His service register is online; he joined in 1914 but did not receive the 1914 Star.
Name Bewley, Joseph Charles Layborn
Official Number: F463
Place of Birth: Derby
Date of Birth: 14 October 1887
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documen...p;resultcount=1

Rest in Peace

Dolphin

Jan 6 2008, 03:29 AM

In Airmen Died his cause of death is shown as pneumonia.

Gareth

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