Ninth Generation

2436. Clarence Edward Bedwell⁸⁵³ was born on 29 Jan 1888 in Kansas.⁴⁵² He died on 4 Mar 1969 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado.^452,1579 He was a fireman.

• From the Kansas 353rd Infantry Regiment in World War I database on ancestry.com: Clarence E. Bedwell; Company F, 353rd Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces; Rank: -- ; Address: Hutchinson, Kan.; Page #: 286

• 1920 Census for Denver, Colorado, shows Clarence Bedwell, 31, a clerk in a freight office who was born in Kansas of parents born in Tennessee and Missouri, and wife Alice, 27, a worker in a garment factory, who was in Iowa of parents born in Germany.

• From The Atchison Daily Globe (Kansas), Saturday, January 13, 1945:
"Clarence E. Bedwell, formerly of Potter and Atchison, but now of Denver, will celebrate his 57th birthday on Kansas Day, January 29. Clarence has been a member of the Denver fire department for several years, was an Atchison fireman at one time, and during World War I served on the military department at Fort Riley. He was born and reared at Potter, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bedwell, a mighty fine pioneer couple. He is a brother of Mrs. Fred Seute of near Potter. His brother, Dr. George Bedwell, who is also a Potter product and who formerly operated a livery stable there, has long been a government veterinarian, and is now located at Marshall, Mo., near St. Louis. Clarence Bedwell is eligible for retirement as a fireman, but on account of the war and the scarcity of men for such jobs, he is staying with it. His son, Pfc. Alan W. Bedwell, has been a prisoner of war in a Phillipine prison camp since Corrigedor."

Clarence Edward Bedwell and Alice [--?--] were married.¹⁵⁸⁰ Alice [--?--] was born about 1892 in Iowa.¹⁵⁸⁰ Clarence Edward Bedwell and Alice [--?--] had the following children:

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Alan W. Bedwell was born in 1921.¹⁵⁸¹ He died in the sinking of the ship Arison Maru while a WWII POW on 24 Oct 1944 in the South China Sea.⁶⁵ He served in the military in the World War II Pacific Theater and became a POW at Corregidor..

• He is probably the Alan Bedwell, age 7, shown in the 1930 Census for Denver, Colorado. He and his brother Ray, age 5, are living as "lodgers" in the household of George C. Shaw, a stock trader, and his wife Nina. Unable to ascertain what family connection, if any, there is between these Bedwell children and the Shaws.

• World War II Enlistment record shows: Alan W Bedwell Birth Year: 1921 Race: White, citizen Enlistment Date: 3 Oct 1941 Branch: Coast Artillery Corps Branch Code: Coast Artillery Corps or Army Mine Planter Service Grade: Private Grade Code: Private Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the Philippine Department Component: Regular Army (including Officers, Nurses, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men) Source: Civil Life Education: 2 years of high school Civil Occupation: Instrument Repairman, Electrical Marital Status: Single, without dependents Height: 69 Weight: 126.

• World War II Prisoners of War record shows: Alan W Bedwell Residence State: Colorado Report Date: 7 May 1942 Latest Report Date: 24 Oct 1944 Grade: Private First Class Grade Notes: Second Lieutenant or Nurse or Dietitian or Physical therapy aide or Private First Class or Ensign or Second Class, Seaman Service Branch: Army Arm or Service: Coast Artillery Corps Arm or Service Code: Coast Artillery Corps Or Amp: Army Mine Planter Service Area Served: Southwest Pacific Theatre: Philippine Islands Detaining Country: Japan Camp: 510 Status: Executed, Died in Ship's Sinking or Result of Ship Sinking, Shot While Attempting Escape POW Transport Ship: October Sinking: Arisan Maru, 24 October 1944 Report Source: Individual has been reported through sources considered official.