History of the Bean Family page 26.
[ Children of Alexander and Eliza Bean contd ]

Churchyard near his Parents, and his brothers Col. William Burgess (1st Essex Volunteer Battn.) and Mrs Charles Burgess.

9th Emily Gertrude: fourth daughter of Alexander Bean born 10 Nov 1867. Married Richard Hardy Bolton of Flecknow, Northamptonshire 15 Sept 1892 and live at Staverton, Daventry. Their only child, Richard Frank born 14 July 1893, went to Canada to learn farming and joined the 8th Battalion of the Winnipeg Rifles when the Great War of 1914 began, and was killed in France 2 April 1917 near Vimy Ridge. He was buried at Villers aux Bois - aged 23.

10th Arthur Herbert, 6th son of Alexander Bean born 2 March 1869. Became a Captain in the Mercantile Service and joined the Naval Reserve. Was for some time in the British India Service, but malaria fever compelled his return to England, and he has been in Wilson's Line Service. During the Great War, he was employed in carrying munitions of war between England and Russia and on 27 Jul 1916 he and his vessel the ESKIMO were captured in the Baltic by a ruse, and he was interned, first in Stralsund and then Augustabad. After being interned in Holland in 1918 he was finally sent back to Englad after the Armistice in December 1918.