Bean, John Willoughby Butler ASC 1886-8

“Jack”

“We take the following from the Brentwoodian,” the magazine issued at Mr. Bean’s school in Essex: “J.W. Bean has taken his M.B., B.C. degrees at Cambridge, and also qualified for M.D. “Bathurstian” Dec. 1909 P.1 Dr. Jack Bean, out from England but a few short months and now practising in Woollarah, paid the School a visit during this term and revived old memories. He intimated that his father would eventually yield to the attractions of this sunny land of ours---.”

Bathurstian June, 1911 P. 67

Died 1969

JOHN WILLOUGHBY BUTLER BEAN

M.D., Ch.B. B.A. (Camb.), L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., Lecturer in Dentistry: Major, A.A.M.C., A.I.F., Gallipoli, France and England. Enlisting 20th August, 1914, and sailing 10th October as R.M.O. 3rd Battn. Was at the Anzac Landing where wounded and evacuated to Egypt, returning to Battn. 29th June, 1915. Wounded again at Lone Pine 6th August, evacuated to Ras-el-Tin Hospital, Alexandria, and later transferred to England. On recovery served on staff of Convalescent Hospital, Great Peter St., London, and, crossing to France, at No. 2 Australian General Hospital in July, 1916, and a special hospital at Warloy during Battle of the Somme. Then was with 13th and 3rd Australian Field Ambulances, No. 38 British Casualty Clearing Station, Heilly, and No. 1 A.G.H. till 14th November when transferred to No. 2. In June, 1917, joined No. 1 Australian Dermatological Hospital, Bulford, and in July, 1918, No. 3 A.A.H., Dartford. Returned as Assistant M.O., transport Durham, arriving in November, 1918, appointment being terminated 30th April, 1919. Promoted major, 5th September, 1915. Early education at All Saints’‘'' College, Bathurst, Brentwood Grammar School and Bath College, England.

Book of Remembrance, Sydney University.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography Isabelle Bean

-------- William John died in 1917 and on 2 March 1922 Isabelle was married to his successor Dr John Willoughby Butler Bean in the Liberal Catholic Church of St Alban, Regent Street, Sydney, by Charles Leadbeater; Charles Bean, the bridegroom's brother, was witness. Isabelle continued her work for the society as secretary to special ventures like the Order of the Round Table and Krishnamurti's Order of the Star of the East.

When Bean resigned from the society in 1924, they spent six months in Tasmania; then after several locums he set up a practice in Roseville, New South Wales. In 1927-32 he was a medical officer in the Queensland Department of Public Instruction, then practised privately in Queen Street, Brisbane. Mrs Bean continued her public life as a vice-president for many years of the Women's Non-Party Association, a body devoted to developing social welfare through political pressure, and as a delegate for the theosophical Order of Service to the National Council of Women. She died of hypertensive cerebral-vascular disease at her South Brisbane home on 14 May 1939, and was cremated with the rites of the Theosophical Society,

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HOBART, TAS. 1943-04-26. THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF FORT DIRECTION, HOBART COAST

ARTILLERY, MAJOR J.W.B. BEAN, IS SHOWN ATTENDING TO A PATIENT'S EAR. MAJOR BEAN IS A BROTHER OF DR. C.E.W. BEAN, THE OFFICIAL HISTORIAN OF WORLD WAR I. ALSO SHOWN-:

T24469 CPL. L.E. WARD (1) T23157 L/CPL A. ELLIOTT (3).