Soldiers who Survived
Henry BEAN
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Regiment
Rank / Number
Date of Birth
Residence
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Royal Army Medical Corps, 39 Company
Private / 80960
1883
Palatine Villas, Rainhill Road, Rainhill
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Henry joined the Royal Army Medical Corps on 15th July 1916 as a laboratory attendant. At that time he lived in Palatine Villas, Rainhill Road, a hospital house as he worked in the Pathology Laboratory at Rainhill Asylum.
He departed Southampton on 24th September 1916 and arrived at Alexandria on 7th October 1916. Then he departed on 17th October and arrived in Bombay on 28th October 1916. He departed Bombay on 7th November 1916 and arrived in Basra on 17th November 1916 and was posted to 133 BGH for duty. He arrived at Addington War Hospital, Croydon with dysentery on 12th October 1919 and was discharged from the army on 9th December 1919 as a consequence of dysentery.
Following his discharge he resumed his duties at Rainhill Asylum from where he eventually retired having served many years as Head Laboratory Technician.
His daughter Dorothy May Bean (b. 1913) also worked in the laboratory before moving to York Hospital with her friend Lucy Reeve who was the daughter of the Medical Superintendent at the hospital - hence the name Reeve Hall – the main hall at Rainhill Asylum for many years.
Acknowledgement: Christopher Bean and Colin Spiller
He departed Southampton on 24th September 1916 and arrived at Alexandria on 7th October 1916. Then he departed on 17th October and arrived in Bombay on 28th October 1916. He departed Bombay on 7th November 1916 and arrived in Basra on 17th November 1916 and was posted to 133 BGH for duty. He arrived at Addington War Hospital, Croydon with dysentery on 12th October 1919 and was discharged from the army on 9th December 1919 as a consequence of dysentery.
Following his discharge he resumed his duties at Rainhill Asylum from where he eventually retired having served many years as Head Laboratory Technician.
His daughter Dorothy May Bean (b. 1913) also worked in the laboratory before moving to York Hospital with her friend Lucy Reeve who was the daughter of the Medical Superintendent at the hospital - hence the name Reeve Hall – the main hall at Rainhill Asylum for many years.
Acknowledgement: Christopher Bean and Colin Spiller
Palatine Villas were the Rainhill Asylum houses along Rainhill Road. This is one of the houses which the Asylum sold off and like many of the others it has since been modernised.