Name
Basil Charles Beak
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
04/11/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
Machine Gun Corps
7th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
GIAVERA BRITISH CEMETERY, ARCADE
Plot 6. Row F. Grave 2.
Italy
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Hertford, St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford, St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford, Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Not on the Much Hadham memorials
Pre War
Born on 28 Aug 1894 in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire son of John and Rose Emily Beak and christened on 25 Sep 1894 in Much Hadham and living in 19 North Road, Hertford in 1901 and 125 Ware Road, Hertford in 1911.
Wartime Service
Enlisted as 1873 Private Hertfordshire Regiment and entered France on 6 Nov 1914.
He obtained a commission on 26 Jun 1917 2nd Lieut Machine Gun Corps and died on active service in 39th Casualty Clearing Station, Italy.
Additional Information
Basil is listed as a Lieutenant on the Regimental memorials, but as a Second Lieutenant in the CWGC and SDITGW databases.
Basil is also commemorated on a headstone in Hertford Corporation Cemetery on which the inscription reads:
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
LT. B. C. BEAK M.G.C DIED NOV. 4TH 1918 AGED 24 YEARS
RESTING IN GIAVERA CEMETERY, ITALY
LT. B. C. BEAK M.G.C DIED NOV. 4TH 1918 AGED 24 YEARS
RESTING IN GIAVERA CEMETERY, ITALY
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
