Allan Ray “Biff” Bevington was born on December 25, 1983 in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Beaver Falls High School in 2002 and immediately joined the Army. He was a combat engineer who had the dangerous job of disarming improvised explosive devices. SGT Bevington was assigned to the 40th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany. He was serving his second tour in Iraq and had survived at least two other IED explosions. On Christmas Day 2003, he was manning a turret gun in a humvee when a bomb went off. Thrown through the turret, he was the only survivor. SGT Bevington died of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near him while he was cordoning off an area during combat operations on September 21, 2006 in Iraq. He is now buried in the Sylvania Hills Memorial Park, Rochester, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

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