216899 Lt. Eric Edge Beatty British Army 6th Btn Connaught Rangers from:Dublin (d.4th Apr 1916) Eric Edge Beatty was the son of of Wallace Beatty, M.D., of 38, Merrion Square, Dublin and Francis Eleanor (Edge). He was killed in action aged 23 and is remembered on the Memorial at St. Stephen's, Church of Ireland, Upper Mount Street.
Eric Edge Beatty was born 30 June, 1893. He was educated at St. Stephen's Green School, Dublin, and St. Coluraba's College, Rathfarnham. In October 1911 he entered Trinity College, Dublin and then Trinity College Medical School, and obtained a first in Botany and Zoology.
He obtained his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in September, 1914 and was promoted to be Lieutenant in February, 1915. He served in his regiment as Machine Gun Officer with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders and was afterwards made Brigade Machine Gun Officer, and was killed in action on 29 April, 1916. He is buried in the British Cemetery at
Noeux-les-Mines.
Col. L. Conyngham wrote: "On several occasions he did excellent service with his machine guns, and was unlucky on at least two of them not to have received special mention. He had been specially selected for promotion to rank of Captain, and had he lived his name would have appeared in an early Gazette. His amiable personality and constant devotion to duty had earned for him the affection and respect of his comrades of all ranks, by whom his loss was deeply regretted."
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