Name
Edward Beacher
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
18/04/1915
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
13011
Bedfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 31 and 33.
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Little Berkhamsted War Memorial
Pre War
Edward was born in 1885 and in 1911 was a gardener living with his parents George (a cowman) and Mary and sisters in Little Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
Edward enlisted at Hertford in the 1st battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment (which suggests that he joined the regular army prior to the Great War). He landed in France on 11th March 1915 and, five weeks later, was killed in action on 18th April 1915 during the ‘Battle of Hill 60’.
Additional Information
Son of Mary Beacher, of Little Berkhamsted, Hertford.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope, Jim Maynard
