Alick Bevan

{{Short description|British cyclist}}

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| birth_place = Wandsworth, London, England

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| death_place = Nordrhein-Westfalen, Nazi Germany

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Alick Bevan (27 March 1915 – 24 January 1945) was a British cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/alick-bevan-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003347/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/be/alick-bevan-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Alick Bevan Olympic Results |access-date=9 July 2014 |work=sports-reference.com}}

He was son of Percy and Rose Anne Bevan of Battersea, London.[https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2618830/alick-bevan/] CWGC Casualty Record, retrieved 9 January 2022.

He was killed in action during World War II while serving in the Western Allied invasion of Germany.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}} He was serving as a lieutenant in the East Surrey Regiment who was attached to the 7th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment when he was mortally wounded by a landmine while participating in an operation around the towns of Pütt and Walderath in Heinsberg, western Nazi Germany. He was buried in Brunssum War Cemetery in the Netherlands.

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