Image: 1877 Gravestone of Sergeant John Matthias Bevan, Army Service Corps, in St George's, Bermuda

Description: Gravestone of Sergeant John Matthias Bevan of the Army Service Corps, who died on the 26th of September, 1877, aged twenty-eight and was buried in the (new) St. George's Garrison cemetery (part of the St. George's Parish cemetery, and not to be confused with the old St. George's Garrison Cemetery, opposite the current location of the Bermuda Branch of the Royal Artillery Association) in the Imperial fortress colony of Bermuda on the 27th of September, 1877. The Army Service Corps operated from a waterside depot (the "Army Service Corps Wharf") on Water Street in St. George's Town (now part of the Somers Wharf shopping and restaurant complex), separate from the main property of St. George's Garrison (which included Barrack Hill, Convict Bay, and various forts and batteries) facing the western end of the Army Ordnance Corps depot of Ordnance Island (originally, the ASC Wharf had been a Commissariat Department depot and Ordnance Island had been an Ordnance Stores Department depot. St. George's Garrison was part of the larger Bermuda Garrison, which from the 1860s was divided into three districts, with St. George's Garrison being the eastern district. The Army Service Corps and other supporting corps had separate establishments in each (there being an Army Service Corps Wharf also on East Broadway in the City of Hamilton (the inland side of East Broadway otherwise forming part of the southern boundary of Prospect Camp), and the corps also operated on Boaz Island.
Title: 1877 Gravestone of Sergeant John Matthias Bevan, Army Service Corps, in St George's, Bermuda
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