A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars

Three: Lieutenant C. R. C. Bean, South Staffordshire Regiment, killed in action on 26 October 1914 near Ypres

1914 Star, with clasp (Lieut., S. Staff. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); together with memorial plaque (Charles Reginald Chamberlayne Bean) contained in a contemporary mahogany glazed fitted display case, extremely fine (4) £450-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Medals to Officers Who Died During The Two World Wars.

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Charles Reginald Chamberlayne Bean was born in 1892 and educated at Sherborne School, on the continent and at Sandhurst. He joined the South Staffordshire Regiment in January 1913, being made a Lieutenant in September 1914. Lieutenant Bean was killed in action near Ypres on 26 October 1914, whilst serving with the 1st Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.

The following is extracted from The Bond of Sacrifice, Volume I: ‘... having gone to the front early in October, he was on the 25th of that month sent to support a hotly pressed trench near Ypres, and after fighting all night, was wounded on the morning of the 26th. Although pressed to leave the trench for medical aid, he refused, and was killed shortly afterwards, his body having been last seen lying on the parapet of the trench.’