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Able Sea. Patrick Beashel
Mercantile Marine SS Beacon Light
from:Rush, County Dublin
(d.19th Feb 1918)
Patrick Beashel was the son of Thomas and Catherine Beashel (nee Knight), of Main Street, Rush, County Dublin. He was one of 33 who lost their lives when the Beacon Light was hit by an enemy submarine 15 miles South-East of Lewis, Scotland. He was 26 years old.
Patrick is commemorated on the Mercantile Marine Memorial - WW1 section of Tower Hill Memorial, London.
Frmn. William Beashel
Mercantile Marine SS Beacon Light
from:Rush, County Dublin
(d.19th Feb 1918)
William Beashel was the son of Richard and Margaret Beashel (nee Ohram), of Main Street, Rush, County Dublin. He was one of 33 who lost their lives when the Beacon Light was hit by an enemy submarine 15 miles South-East of Lewis, Scotland. He was 32 years old.
William is commemorated on the Mercantile Marine Memorial - WW1 section of Tower Hill Memorial, London.
Sister. Beasley
Queen Alexandras Nursing Service No. 46 Stationary Hospital
L/Cpl. George Beason
British Army 1st Btn Leinster Regiment
from:Barking, Essex
(d.22nd February 1915)
George A Beason was born on 29th July 1890 in Barking, Essex. He lost his life on the 22nd of Feb 1915 fighting in France & Flanders. The son of William & Jane Beason.
Pte. William Beastall
British Army 4th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Stanley House, Balby, Doncaster.
(d.26th July 1918)
William Beastall is a great uncle, related to my Grandmother, Emily Marion Milthorp, nee Beastall.
Ronald Griffiths Beat
British Army 2nd Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Dunham on Trent
(d.8th Oct 1918)
Ronald Beat served with 2nd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters. I was researching my family history and came across this photo of Ron(on the right). On the the back it reads: "Come to the cookhouse door boys. With love from Cecil to Florrie (Ron's sister), Saturday 27th of October 1917, Brocton camp Staffordshire."
Pte Robert Matthew Beatham VC
Australian Imperial Force 8th Battalion
from:Australia
(d.9 August 1918)
Pte. Robert Matthew Beatham VC.
Australian Imperial Forces 8th Btn.
(d.11th Aug 1918)
Robert Beatham was killed in action, on the 11th of August 1918, aged 24. He is buried in the Heath Cemetery in France. He was the son of Elizabeth Beatham, of Glassonby, Kirkoswald, Cumberland, England, and the late John Beatham.
An extract from "The London Gazette" dated 13th Dec., 1918, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery and self-sacrifice during the attack north of Rosieres, east of Amiens, on 9th Aug., 1918. When the advance was held up by heavy machine gun fire, Pte. Beatham dashed forward, and, assisted by one man, bombed and fought the crews of four enemy machine guns, killing ten of them and capturing ten others, thus facilitating the advance and saving many casualties. When the final objective was reached, although previously wounded, he again dashed forward and bombed a machine gun, being riddled with bullets and killed in doing so. The valour displayed by this gallant soldier inspired all ranks in a wonderful manner."
Pte. Robert Beatie
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Kenneth Beaton
British Army 1st Battalion Royal Scots
(d.12th June 1915)
Kenneth Beaton, served wth the 1st Battalion Royal Scots in France in 1915. He is buried in Chapelle-D'Armentieres Old Military Extension.
Pte Norman Beaton
British Army 8th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Glengrasco, Skye
(d.24th Dec 1917)
2nd Lt. William James Beaton
British Army 174th Coy Machine Gun Corps
from:Edinburgh
(d.24th Sept 1917)
William Beaton was the Assistant Librarian of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was killed in action during 3rd Battle of Ypres on 24th of September 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the memorial at Tyne Cot, and also on the Roll Of Honour at the British Library.
L/Cpl. Leonard Sydney Beatson
British Army 10th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Levenshulme, Lancashire
(d.13th May 1917)
Leonard Sydney Beatson was born in Jun 1893 to Sydney and Minnie Beatson in Chorlton, Manchester. He was a brokers assistant, and on the 29th March 1915 he married Jennie Higson. He joined up shortly after and served as a private and later a lance corporal in the 10th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers.
His daughter Joyce was born on the 8th of March 1916. Whether he ever got home to see her is not known, but he was killed in action, possibly during the capture of Rouex on the 13th May 1917. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
Editor's Note:- Although his name is Leonard Sydney Beatson, all official records for the C.W.G.C. and medal cards etc. have him recorded as Sydney Leonard Beatson.
L/Cpl. Sydney Leonard Beatson
British Army 10th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Levenshulme, Manchester
(d.13th May 1917)
Sydney Beatson served with the 10th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers during WW1 and died on the 13th May 1917. He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. From thedivisional actions he was most probably killed during the Capture of Roeux - part of the Arras Offensive.
Pte. Hugh Beattie
British Army 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
(d.5th September 1916)
Hugh Beattie joined the war as part of Kitchener's second new army. On the 5th of September 1916, with his colleagues, Hugh dug in at Falemont Farm, a German stronghold taken that day. They prepared to assault the nearby energy Combles Trench.
As the Battalion struggled through a waist-high cornfield and dense weeds, they encountered wire entanglements hidden within and as they struggled forwards, German machine guns cut them apart. Another attempt was made that evening only to be further decimated and with their final casualty figures for the day resting at 273 men. Hugh's body was never recovered and his name is carved into the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. J. Beattie
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
J Beattie was discharged in June 1915 due to illness.
L/Cpl. James Beattie
British Army 1st Btn. Black Watch
from:Castleton, Newcastleton, Scotland
(d.1st July 1915)
James Beattie was born at Castleton, Newcastleton, Roxburghshire in July 1885. He enlisted in the Scots Guards in Edinburgh on 3rd October 1908 when he was 23 years old. The enlistment book records his former occupation as policeman. He was transferred to the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) on 14th August 1909. After two years' service James was posted to India. He was awarded the Delhi Durbar medal to commemorate the crowning of George V and Mary of Teck, Emperor and Empress of India in 1911.
When war broke out in 1914 James' regiment returned from India, arriving home in February 1915. He had a week furlough at home before leaving for the front in France in March. He was wounded on 4th April but was soon back at the front only to be wounded again on 9th May during the Battle of Aubers Ridge. He was captured by the Germans and sent to the POW camp near Wesel where he died from his wounds on 1st July 1915. He was buried at Cologne Southern Cemetery. His passing is recorded on his parents' headstone in Old Castleton Cemetery and on the war memorial in Newcastleton.
He had at least two cousins who also gave their lives in service to their country during the Great War, Sergeant James Adam Beattie with the Northumberland Fusiliers then with 2nd Battalion King's African Rifles and Pte William Beattie who served with the Army Service Corps and died on the Italian Front in the Veneto region. He is buried in Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery, Vicenza.
Sto James Beattie
Royal Navy HMS Marguerite
James is listed in the Stockton on Tees Book of Remembrance for souls lost in WW1, simply as James Beattie, 'stoker' HMS Marguerite. No other information has yet come to light.
Pte. John Beattie
British Army 11th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Raphoe, Co.Donegal
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. John Beattie
British Army 1st Btn. Gordon Highlanders
from:Hawick, Scotland
My brother has recently uncovered information regarding our grandfather, John Beattie, who served with the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders in WW1. He was captured in action at the Battle of le Cateau on 26/27th August 1914. He subsequently spent the whole of the rest of the war as a PoW at Sennelager PoW camp near Bielefeld in north-west Germany. His medical card has been sent to my brother and the text (in French) describes him as "fading away. He has been here a long time. He is under the orders of Lieutenant Usher whose regiment is also in internment". Despite the description, fortunately he survived the war and returned home. His unit had landed in Boulogne, France, on 14th of August so he spent only two weeks on active service, followed by four years as a prisoner.
After the war he became a police officer with the Glasgow police, where he met my maternal grandmother, Janet Beattie (nee Morrison), who was one of the first three or four female recruits into the police after the war. She rose to become the first ever female Detective Inspector in Scotland and received a British Empire Medal from the Queen on her retirement in 1968. My grandfather was fatally injured in making an arrest in Glasgow and died around 1935 when my father (also John) was seven years old. I recall my father recounting that his father had been a gunner and his position had been overrun by the German cavalry, leading to his capture. We do, somewhere, still have the "comfort photograph" of him that was sent by the German Red Cross to his family at home to let them know he was alive.
Sgt Robert Kennedy Beattie
British Army 219th Field Company Royal Engineers
from:Dumfries
Enlisted 1915-06-03 Sapper, appointed Lance Corporal 1915-07-26, 2nd Corporal 1915-08-02, Corporal 1915-08-12, Acting Sergeant 1915-08-22. Promoted to Sergeant 1915-08-22.
Transferred to class Z, Army Reserve on demobilisation 1919-05-08
Bmdr. Thomas Leonard Beattie MM.
Royal Garrison Artillery 35th Siege Battery
from:Gosport
My father, Thomas Beattie, was a professional soldier enlisting at Gosport, Hants in 1911. At the outbreak of WW1 he was a trumpeter at Gibraltar in a company of the RGA. Later mustered in the 35th Battery RGA and posted to France as Acting bombardier in 1915. He served in the Ypres Sector where it is believed he won his Military Medal. Later transferred to the Somme 1917.
On return to UK he was at Bulford Camp as a Sergeant married at St Leonard's Church in 1923. He then served in Egypt, India, Afghan frontier and held the GSM with Waziristan clasp. Promoted to Battery Sergeant Major serving at RA Headquarters Woolwich early 1920s, later RSM and commissioned as Lt (QM) 6th Regt. RA at Deepcut Frimly Hants.
Sent to France with the BEF at HQ Arras he later became a Dunkirk Veteran (holds the Dunkirk Veteran medal) after being knocked out on a beach and stripped of his uniform whilst unconscious! He returned with reminisce of the 6th Regiment to Aldershot to be part of the HAA for London at Bromley Kent (Sundridge battery). After service at Wolverhampton he was presented his MBE by King George at Buckingham Palace 1940 in attendance with myself and his wife.
He embarked at Liverpool for the Middle East but arrived at Singapore just before its surrender. Then off to Sumatra to destroy oil fields and on to Java after the loss of the regimental guns. Served as infantry to protect RAF airfields and captured by Japs in March 1942.
Then shipped to Japan as POW to Fukuoka Camps 1/12 and others. Liberated by Americans in September 1945 in poor physical shape but was rehabilitated by them and sent to Vancouver, Canada for transfer over land to New York, USA. He was then Capt. Beattie passenger on troopship as was the liner Queen Mary. The QM arrived at Southampton, Hants in November 1945 where she was met on the dock by my mother and I. Then back to Aldershot for debrief and to help his recuperation posted to Royal Artillery 457 Regt. TA as their Major QM at Portsmouth Hants (we were living over the ferry in Gosport!). This was interesting as it turned out that a few of the CCF officers/schoolmasters of my school in Portsmouth also were TA officers of the 457!
The family left Gosport in 1949 as father had been promoted again earlier to become Lt._Col (QM) at HQ RA Woolwich where he was RSM prior to WW2. After retiring there in 1953 father and us lived in our permanent retirement house at Kidbrooke, Blackheath, London. Unfortunately dying there in 1965. So a veteran of WW1,WW2, Dunkirk and Jap POW thus serving all of 42 years as a typical professional holding two gallantry medals giving a total of 13 plus his Dunkirk French Corporation commemorative medal.
Pte. Walter John Beattie
British Army 15th Battalion Royal Scots
from:Jarrow
(d.26th April 1917)
Walter John Beattie served with the 15th Battalion Royal Scots he was aged 33 when he died on 26th April 1917. Born in Bulgill, Cumberland, he was the son of Janet Milligan (formerly Beattie) and the late Walter Beattie and husband of Christina Wilson Beattie (nee Aitern) of 25 Primrose Hill, Monkton, Jarrow. On the 1911 census is recorded as Walter John Beattie age 27 Coal miner Hewer, living with wife Christina and child at 74 Laurel Street, Wallsend. Walter enlisted in Bowhill, Selkirk and is remembered on the Arras Memorial.
Pte. William Beattie MiD.
British Army Army Service Corps
from:Walwick Farm, Humshaugh, Northumberland
(d.2nd October 1918)
William Beattie died on 2nd of October 1918, age 30 while serving with the Army Service Corps, attached to the 21st Field Ambulance, RAMC on the Italian Front in the Veneto region. He is buried in Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery, Vicenza.
Having served in France since 1915, William was amongst the thousands of British troops transferred to the Italian front during 1917. They were controlling the line stretching from the marshes near Venice into the alpine regions of the Dolomites. Army records indicate that William was mentioned in dispatches for his bravery whilst recovering wounded soldiers from the battlefield.
From Hexham Herald 12th October 1918, "Beattie. Died from pneumonia at casualty clearing station in Italy on 2nd October 1918 aged 29 years. Private William Beattie M T Army Service Corps, beloved and eldest son of A and M E Beattie, Walwick Farm. Unfeigned regret has been occasioned in Humshaugh district by the news received this week of the death, in Italy, from an attack of pneumonia, of Private William Beattie of Walwick
From Hexham Courant, 19th October 1918 "Mr and Mrs Beattie, Walwick Farm, Humshaugh, received official information that their eldest son, Private William Beattie, Motor Transport, Army Service Corps, 21st Field Ambulance, has died at a clearing station in Italy. Private Beattie joined the colours in July 1915 and left Hexham for France as driver of Dr Stewartā€™s Ambulance Car 'The North Tyne'. In December 1917, he was transferred to Italy, where he died from pneumonia on 2nd October. Prior to enlisting, Private Beattie, like many other patriotic boys, came over from Canada. He must have emigrated before 1915. He was 29 years of age. Mrs Beattie has received the following from Col. W J Wright ADMS, Italy, dated 6th October. "Dear Mrs Beattie, with deepest regret I heard of your son's death yesterday. As his late commanding officer, please accept my deepest sympathy in your very sad bereavement. During the times I commanded the 21st Field Ambulance, I always found your son most obliging and cheerful, no work was too hard or too dangerous for him. He always took his orders with a smiling face and in every possible way was ready to help the sick and wounded. Although I have left my own unit, I know well how much he will be missed, both by officers and men, with whom he was most popular. He always set a fine example to all ranks and was a splendid example of a true Britisher.""
William Beattie received a posthumous Mention in Despatches for distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty. He is buried in Northern Italy in the Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension. Although his death is recorded as pneumonia it is quite likely that he had succumbed to Spanish Flu.
2nd Lt. Benjamin George Beatty
Royal Flying Corps 45th Squadron
from:Blackrock, Co. Dublin
(d.28th July 1917)
Benjamin George Beatty was the son of Francis Rowland Beatty and Jane Sophia Beatty, of 14 Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Co. Dublin. He died aged 22 and is commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial.
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."
Pnr. Joseph Beatty
British Army Special Bde. Royal Engineers
(d.8th November 1916)
Pioneer Beatty was 27 when he died and is buried North-East of the main path in the Clones (Sacred Heart) Catholic Cemetery, Co. Monaghan, Ireland.
Rfm. Thomas Beatty
British Army 2nd Btn Royal Irish Rifles
from:Dublin
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Thomas Beatty was killed in action and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.
Pte. Henry William Beauchamp
British Army 83rd Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Kingston upon Thames
(d.20th Apr 1915)
PO. James John Beauchamp
Royal Navy HMS Goliath
from:Castleblaney, County Monaghan
(d.13th May 1915)
1st Class Petty Officer James Beauchamp was born in Portsmouth on November 17th 1868. He was the son of Jersey-born Benjamin and Emma Beauchamp, of Malahide, County Dublin. James was the husband of Bridget Beauchamp, of Killycard, Castleblaney, County Monaghan, Ireland. Before he enlisted he worked as a Coastguard in Malahide.
James Beauchamp was 48 years old when he was killed in action in the Dardanelles when the Goliath was torpedoed and sunk by a German-commanded, Turkish ship. He is commemorated on Panel 5 of the Plymouth Naval Memorial in Devon.
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