The Flight Sergeant Douglas Oliver Bevan Military Memorial Bursary was created in 2011.
Douglas Bevan was born in 1920, the son of a Methodist minister and his wife. Bevan attended Mount Royal College in the 1930s, was a teacher and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941. His training school noted that he was “keen, ambitious, should do a good job… cheerful and philosophical under difficulties.” Flight Sergeant Bevan died on December 25, 1942, at the age of 29 while serving with the Bomber Command flying out of Montreal.