Beanlands,+Alex


 * Flight Sergeant Alex Beanlands**

Keighley News 20/5/44 Death Abroad Official information has been received by Mr and Mrs E N Beanlands of 7, Granby Drive, Riddlesden, Keighley, that their son, Flight Sergeant Alex Beanlands, has been killed in air operations in India. He joined up in 1940, and served two years in Rhodesia, and after a short time in England was posted to India. He was 22. He was educated at Bingley Grammar School and later employed on the staff of the Bingley Building Society.

Rank: Flight Sergeant (Pilot) Regiment/Service: Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: 177 Sqdn. Age: 22 Date of Death: 07/05/1944 Service No: 1425883 Additional information: Son of Ernest Newton Beanlands and of Elizabeth Beanlands (nee Bridle), of Riddlesden, Keighley, Yorkshire. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: 1. C. 8. Cemetery: CHITTAGONG WAR CEMETERY