Bevis Bawa
| Bevis Bawa | |
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| Born |
26 April 1903 Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Died | 18 September 1992 (aged 89) Bentota, Sri Lanka |
| Allegiance | Ceylon |
| Service/branch | Ceylon Defence Force |
| Years of service | 1929 - 1950 |
| Rank | Major |
| Unit | Ceylon Light Infantry |
| Commands held | Aide-de-camp to the Governor of Ceylon |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards | War Medal 1939–1945 |
| Other work | Landscaper, horticulturalist |
Major Bevis William Frederick Bawa, ADC, CLI (26 April 1909 – 18 September 1992) was a Ceylonese (Sri Lankan) planter, soldier and a landscaper. He was also one of the most renowned landscape architects in Sri Lanka and served as the Aide-de-camp to four Governors of Ceylon.
Bevis Bawa was born on 26 April 1909 in Colombo, the eldest son of Justice Benjamin William Bawa (1865–1923), a wealthy and successful lawyer, of Muslim and English parentage, and Bertha Marianne née Schrader (1876–1946), who was of mixed German, Scottish and Sinhalese descent. He had one younger brother, Geoffrey Bawa (1919–2003) ten years his junior, who is regarded as being one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the twentieth century.
Bawa was educated at Royal College Colombo, but had to leave school at seventeen when his father died while in England. His mother sent him to be trained as a planter at his uncles estates in order to take up the management of the family estate in Aluthgama known as Brief Estate.
In 1929, Bawa was commissioned as an Second Lieutenant in the Ceylon Light Infantry, a reservist regiment of the Ceylon Defence Force. In 1934, Lieutenant Bawa was appointed as Aide-de-camp (ADC) to the Governor, Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs; a post held by his father years before. He served sixteen years at King's House in the staff of the Governor and thereafter the Governor General as the ADC to Sir Andrew Caldecott, Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore and Lord Soulbury, gaining promotion to the rank of Captain and thereafter Major. He was one of the initial officers of the newly formed Ceylon Army and one of only nine Majors in the army. He retired from the army in 1950, with Captain (later General) Sepala Attygalle succeeding him to the post of ADC to the Governor General.
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