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Nurse Patricia Beauchamp
First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
Pte. William Fredrick Beauchamp
British Army 1st Reserve Coy. Army Service Corps
from:Nottingham
(d.23rd Nov 1918)
My grandfather William Beauchamp was born Grantham and spent his early years living in Doncaster. In 1911 he went to Ruskin College Oxford leaving during 1913. He joined the Army in 1916 aged thirty years and served on the Western Front. He died 23rd Nov 1918 in the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich and is buried in Doncaster Old Cemetery, Yorkshire.
Capt. Andrew Frederick Weatherby Beauchamp-Proctor VC, DSO, MC & Bar, DFC.
Royal Air Force
from:Wynberg, Cape Province
Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor was ccidentally killed in England on 21/06/1921 aged 23 and buried in Mafikeng in South Africa. He was the son of Capt. John J. Beauchamp-Proctor, and the late Mrs. J. J. Beauchamp-Proctor, of Castletown Rd., Wynberg, Cape Province. Graduate B.Sc. of University of Cape Town. Born at Mossel Bay, Cape Province.
An extract from the London Gazette, dated 30th Nov., 1918, records the following:-"Between August 8th, 1918, and October 8th, 1918, this officer proved himself victor in twenty-six decisive combats, destroying twelve enemy kite balloons, ten enemy aircraft, and driving down four other enemy aircraft completely out of control. Between October 1st, 1918, and October 5th, 1918, he destroyed two enemy scouts, burnt three enemy kite balloons, and drove down one enemy scout completely out of control. On October 1st, 1918, in a general engagement with about twenty-eight machines, he crashed one Fokker biplane near Fontaine and a second near Ramicourt; on October 2nd he burnt a hostile balloon near Selvigny; on October 3rd he drove down, completely out of control, an enemy scout near Mont D'Origny, and burnt a hostile balloon; on October 5th, the third hostile balloon near Bohain. On October 8th, 1918, while flying home at a low altitude, after destroying an enemy two-seater near Maretz, he was painfully wounded in the arm by machine-gun fire, but, continuing, he landed safely at his aerodrome, and after making his report was admitted to hospital. In all he has proved himself conqueror over fifty-four foes, destroying twenty-two machines, sixteen enemy kite balloons, and driving down sixteen enemy aircraft completely out of control. Captain Beauchamp-Proctor's work in attacking enemy troops on the ground and in reconnaissance during the withdrawal following on the Battle of St. Quentin from March 21st, 1918, and during the victorious advance of our Armies commencing on August 8th, has been almost unsurpassed in its brilliancy, and as such has made an impression by those serving in his squadron and those around him that will not be easily forgotten. Captain Beauchamp-Proctor was awarded Military Cross on 22nd June, 1918, D.F. Cross on 2nd July, 1918; Bar to M.C. on 16th September, 1918; and Distinguished Service Order on 2nd November, 1918."
Pvt. Aime Arthur Beaudoin
United States Army 309th Infantry Regiment
from:Manchester, NH
Aime Beaudoin served with the United States Army 2nd Co, 1st RB, 309th Infantry.
Sgt. Albert Antoine Charles Jean B. G. Beauffaux
Belgian Army 5 Linie 2/5 (Koloniale Troepen)
(d.2nd January 1917)
Sergeant ov Mitrailleur Beauffaux is bureind in the Nsambya Roman Catholic Cemetery in Uganda.
Pte. Alexander Beaumont
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
served with 18th, 20th and 9th DLI
Pte. Arthur George Beaumont
British Army 9th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Mulbarton, Norfolk
(d.26th Sep 1915)
My grandmother's brother Arthur George Beaumont enlisted in Norwich and joined the 9th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. He was killed at the Battle of Loos on 26th September 1915 at the age of 23. His memorial is at Panel 30 and 31 at Loos Cemetery. Unfortunately I know very little about Arthur's life in the regiment as I came across the Death penny on sorting my grandmother's house when she passed. I knew nothing of him until then as she never spoke of Arthur but she had named a son Arthur so I am guessing he was named after her brother.
L/Cpl. Charles Beaumont
British Army 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment
from:Leicester
(d.15th September 1916)
Pte. Ernest Alfred Beaumont
British Army 2nd Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
(d.24th Jun 1915)
Pte E. A. Beaumont served with the 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment. He was executed for desertion on 24th June1915 aged 27 and is buried in St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery, Richebourg-l'Avoue, France.
Pte. Frank Beaumont
British Army 10th Btn. West Riding Regiment (Duke of Wellingtons)
from:Lower Hopton
(d.7th June 1917)
Frank Beaumont was my great uncle. He was the son of Charles and Annie Beaumont and the brother of Laura, Henry and Amy.
CQMS. Fred Beaumont
British Army West Yorkshire Regiment
Fred Beaumont served with the West Yorkshire Regiment.
Pte. Harry Beaumont
British Army 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
2nd Lt. Reginald Beaumont
British Army 22nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
2nd Lt. Reginald Beaumont
British Army 22nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
Pte. Robert Beaumont
British Army 2/6th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Stockton-on-Tees
(d.13th Oct 1917)
Pte. Willie Beaumont
British Army 1st Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
from:Gomersal, W.Yorks
(d.8th May 1915)
Willie Beaumont was born in 1896. One of 8 children whose parents were Blackburn Beaumont and Eliza Beaumont of Gomersal, W.Yorks. Blackburn was a joiner and the family lived at Church Lane. In the 1911 census Willie is a newsboy at the Station News Shop. Blackburn Beaumont was my great grandfather, George's brother.
Willie is commemorated on his parent's gravestone in St Mary's Church Graveyard, Gomersal and also at the Menin Gate (though here the date of death is given as August).
2nd Lt. William George Beaumot-Edmonds
British Army 1/22nd (County of London) Btn. London Regiment
from:Streatham Hill, London
(d.17th Sep 1916)
William Beaumont-Edmonds was born at Stockwell, June 2, 1883. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School from 1896-1900 and Gray's Inn, Inns of Court and was admitted to the Bar in 1909. Edmonds served in the 16th London Regiment (Westminster Rifles) as a Lance Corporal for seven years prior to the Great War. He was promoted to 2nd Lt and joined 1/22nd London Regiment in 1915 and served 10 months in France prior to his death.
2nd Lt. Beaumont-Edmonds was killed in action on the 17th of September 1916 in a trench about 1/4 mile northeast of High Wood by an artillery shell. His identity disc was recovered and he was buried close to the trench. However, due to the fortunes of war his grave location was lost and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing.
L/Cpl. Albert Richmond Beaver
British Army 8th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire
from:St. George, Bristol
(d.27th May 1917)
R. Beaver is commemorated on the Mangotsfield War Memorial but there is no man of that name from Mangotsfield recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. But, there is an Albert Richmond Beaver from the village so it appears he was probably better known as Richmond Baber as indicated on the Electoral list of 1914?
Hewas born in 1890 in Mangotsfield to Albert and Amy Keziah Beaver (nee Baker) who were married on 25th December 1888 in Christ Church, Downend. In 1891 they were living in Staple Hill and ten years later Richmond was residing in Salisbury Avenue, Two Mile Hill, St. George with his step father William Gingell who had married Richmond's mother Amy in 1895 following the death of Richmond's father Albert in 1892. When he enlisted in 1909 Richmond was employed as a box making machinist in a printing works living at 11, Burchell's Green Road, St. George with his step father who had also been widowed, with Richmond's mother Amy passing away in 1910.
Richmond enlisted for ten years on 3rd June 1909 in Bristol as Ordinary Seaman Bristol 3/788 in the Royal Naval Division with his records showing he was 5' 6" tall with dark brown hair with grey eyes and had a small tattoo smudge on his right forearm. However his service appears to have been cut short or 'Incomplete' according to his service record. Despite having reached the level of A.B. (Able Bodied Seaman) it also states that his service onboard H.M.S. Spartan (a Second Class Light Cruiser) was cancelled and demoted to ships cook. Clearly he left the Royal Navy as the 1914 Electoral Register has Richmond living in 9, Court Road, Kingswood, with his wife Elizabeth.
He formerly served as Lance Corporal 27193 1st/6th Battalion, Gloucestershire Regiment (based upon his service number), enlisting some time after 1915 and later posted as Lance Corporal 34329 to 8th (Service) Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment (25th Division) for Kitchener's Army which had landed in Boulogne on 16th September 1915, the division concentrating in the area of Nieppe and on 26th October it was transferred to 7th Brigade. Their first action was in defence of the German attack on Vimy Ridge in May 1916. They then moved to The Somme and joined the Battle just after the main attack, with 75th Brigade making a costly attack near Thiepval on the 3rd of July. The Division was in action at The Battle of Bazentin, The Battle of Pozieres and The Battle of the Ancre Heights
Richmond was killed in action on 27th May 1917 near Neuve Eglise in the Battle of Messines during the attack between the Wulverghem-Messines and Wulverghem-Wytschaete roads and is buried at the Dranoutre Military Cemetery, 11.5 kilometres south of Ypres, Belgium. Strangely there is nothing untoward in the Battalion's War Diary to indicate there was any figthing with the enemy ..24th - 28th May. The 7th Infantry Brigade relieved the 74th Infantry Brigade in the Wulvergheim sector. The 1st Battalion Wiltshire Regiment going into the trenches. 8th Loyal North Lancs in brigade support at Neuve Eglise and the two remaining battalions in reserve at Aldershot and Bulford camps. However the Diary states that during the night of the 28th ...the enemy bombarded our front trenches, the damage done being inconsiderable (negligible).... so how was Richmond killed? He was posthumously awarded the 1914-15 Star, the British War and Victory medals
Pte. Jacob David Beaver
British Army 39th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:New York, USA
Jacob D Beaver was my grandfather. He enlisted into the 39th Fusiliers as a non-national American as he was attracted to the concept of Zionism. He was transported to Canada Nova Scotia to begin training. Eventually he was transported with the rest of the American contingent to Palestine where he did see combat but avoided injury. He was a simple man with very strong convictions as he originally was from Russia where being a Jew brought many hazards for simple being a Jew. He always felt those childhood prejudices and pogroms would end if the Jews had a homeland. I was lucky enough to visit the museum near Netanya in Israel and see and feel his service during World War I.
Pte. Robert Beaver
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Mangotsfield
(d.8th October 1917)
Robert Beaver was born in Burchell's Green Road, St. George in 1889 and was baptised on 18th July 1889. Bob was one of five children born to James and Mary Ann Beaver (nee Gale) who married on 22nd December 1883 at St. Mary's, Bitton, Glos. By 1911 Bob was employed as a finisher in a boot factory living at 41, New Queen Street, Two Mile Hill. On 25th December 1915 he married Florence Rose Nolan at St. James Church, Mangotsfield.
He served as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was recorded as missing on 8th October 1917 near Polygon Wood, Belgium. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial and also the Mangotsfield United Reformed Church Memorial.
The Army Register of Soldier's Effects shows that Bob's possessions amounted to 1pound.1s.10d which was sent to his widow Flossie on 20th February 1928 with a War Gratuity Grant being sent to her on 22nd December 1919. Robert Beaver was posthumously awarded the Victory and British War medals but not the 1914-1915 Star which indicates that he did not enter France and Flanders until 1916 at the earliest. This corresponds with his War Gratuity which is indicative of him enlisting in 1916.
Pte. Thomas Edward Beaver
British Army 2/6th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Langley Mill, Derbyshire
(d.15th April 1918)
Thomas Beaver was my great uncle. He was born at Langley Mill, near Heanor, Derbyshire on 5th May 1899, the eighth child (of eleven) of Charles Beaver (a coal miner) and his wife, Mary (nee Williamson). A coal miner himself after leaving school, he enlisted in the 3rd Battalion, Sherwood Foresters on 18th September 1915 and received the number 30924. However, he was discharged at Sunderland on 16th of November 1915 "having made a mis-statement as to age on enlistment". However, two years later at the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Sherwood Foresters again and received the number 42886.
Arriving in France at the beginning of April 1918, he and his unit were immediately transferred to the 2/6th Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment. Unfortunately, however, he was reported missing presumed killed during the Battle of Bailleul on 15th April 1918. His distraught mother always believed that he would come home and was suffering from shellshock. She even sought to make her way to France to find him herself. However, the Germans had overrun the British positions at Bailleul in their last major offensive in the West, and his body was not recovered until after the war. He is buried at the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension. He was unmarried.
Pte. William Victor Beavers
British Army 2nd/5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
(d.1st Sep 1917)
William Victor Beavers was aged 20 who died on 1st September 1917, whilst serving with 2nd/5th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. (Formerly 44920 Yorkshire Regiment). Born in Jarrow, he was the son of Richard and Ada Beavers (nee Fulthorpe). On the 1911 census he is recorded as: William Victor Beavers age 13 at School is with his parents Richard and Ada Beavers and family at Red Lion Hotel, Roker, Sunderland. He enlisted in Sunderland.
William is remembered at the Tyne Cot Memorial.
Pte. Robert Ernest Beazley
British Army Hampshire Regiment
from:Ryde,Isle of White
I am trying to find out which battle my grandad was injured in during WW1. I have a copy of his honourable discharge certificate dated 1st June 1916. I know he spent time in hospital in London and had other operations there after the war. They were unsuccessful in removing shrapnel from this injury and he died with it still embedded in his hip, aged 89.
I am not sure if he was living in Portsmouth or Ryde,Isle of Wight in 1914. I would love to know when he signed up for duty, where he was sent, and which battles he fought in, but have drawn a blank so far. Can you offer some suggestions on where I could get any of this information? Many thanks.
Pte. Harry Clarke Beba
British Army 7th Btn Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Gedney Marsh, Gedney, Lincolnshire
(d.9th Oct 1918)
Harry Beba was born on the family farm at Gedney Marsh, Holbeach, Lincolnshire in the summer quarter of 1898 to Richard and Mary Beba. He was the second eldest son of ten children but the only one to serve in the Great War.
He served as a Private with the North Staffordshire Regiment and later remaining a Private with 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment. He died whilst serving with the Lincolnshire's on 9th of October 1918 and is buried in Honnechy British Cemetery in France.
His sacrifice is also recorded on commemorative war memorial tablets inside St. Mary's Church, Gedney.
Pte, Alfred Bebbington
British Army 1/7th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
from:Acton, Nantwich, Cheshire
Alfred Bebbington served in France with the 1/7th Cheshire Regiment in 1918. He was gassed and returned to England. He was treated at Macclesfield Hospital and later married Ivy who was his nurse. They were happily married until their deaths in the 1970's. He had many stories to tell, one he did mention was that after recovering he was sent to Egypt. He was awarded both the British War and the Victory Medal
Pte John W Bebbington
British Army 16th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Salford
(d.16th Dec 1915)
John Bebbington was killed on 16th of December 1915 Whilst serving with the Salford Pals.
Pte. Alfred James Beck
British Army 2nd Btn East Kent Regiment
from:Ramsgate Kent
(d.28 Sep 1915)
Alfred Beck is commemorated at Loos-en-Gohelle, in France
Pte. Edgar Beck
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Willington
(d.1st July 1916)
Dvr. Frank Beck
British Army 2nd/1st (North Midland) Field Coy Royal Engineers
from:26 Hill Top Road, Warley, Oldbury, Worcs
(d.18th Feb 1917)
Pte. Frederick Charles Beck
British Army 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry
from:Stoke St Gregory
Frederick Beck was my grandfather. He and three of his brothers John Samuel, the eldest born 1882, Charles and George. All enlisted together in Taunton on the 23rd September 1914. The four brothers were assigned to the newly formed 7/SLI.
On the 24th July 1916, the Battalion moved by train from Amesbury to Southampton, sailing for Boulogne that evening. Of the four brothers on board the ship, all assigned to the Battalion's B Company, one would be killed within two months.
On the evening of Monday 12th of September, the Battalion held the front line just east of Cordonnerie Farm, close to the hamlet of Petillon, and about five miles south west of Armentieres. This was the very first occasion on which 7/SLI held the line in its own right. The Germans exploded two closely spaced mines directly under the men of B Company, creating a forty yard crater. Five men were killed and seventeen injured. Intense shelling and mortar fire continued for the next three days, on 14th of September George Beck was killed. He was 29, and is buried in the Rue Petillon Military Cemetery, just a mile or so from where he fell.
Frederick Beck was wounded in action on 1st of October, on which date 7/SLI made a daring advance at Le Transloy (Somme area). According to his medical record, Frederick was buried by a shell, suffering injuries to his wrist and knee, after long spells in hospital, Frederick was graded as 'C3' meaning no longer considered fit for active service overseas. He then served with Agricultural Companies of the Labour Corps, firstly with No. 449 Company. Then No. 445 Company.
I don't know much about his brothers Charles and John Samuel, as their records were destroyed by fire. They both returned home to Somerset after the war. Frederick returned home to his wife and eight children. He passed away in 1974 age 91
At the time his brothers sailed to France, Harry Beck their younger brother, still only sixteen, perhaps a wilful attempt to prove himself the equal of his brothers, had already enlisted himself. Drafted to join 8/SLI on 4 October. Amongst a contingent of 248 NCOs and men as that Batallion refitted in the French town of Borre. Surely reflecting on the wisdom of his decision to enlist. Knowing as he would have done of his brothers death. His father wrote a letter: I have a son in France, his age being sixteen. Perhaps you may kindly consider the case as all my sons(five) has been sent to the front, one being killed in France. Army bureaucracy meant that Harry was not finally discharged until 25th of February 1916.
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