Born Croxton, enlisted Hull, resident Goxhill, Died of wounds 12rd March 1918, Commemorated DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme / Goxhill All Saints / Goxhill Memorial Hall / Lincolnshire Regiment Roll of Honour WW1
1911 Census Son of Thomas and Annie Elizabeth Beswick, of Goxhill, age 14, born Croxton, Shop Assistant.
Father a Shepherd living around Thorne Lane/Church Farm area of village, Family recorded in village by 1899 (E. Fincham)
SUPREME SACRIFICE- News is to hand that Private Arthur Beswick had died from gunshot wounds. By a melancholy coincidence a paper was read at the Christian Endeavour on the evening of his death, that he had sent from France entitled "The Joys and Sorrows of Life."
Lincolnshire Star – 20 April 1918 – page 2.
Born Croxton, enlisted Hull, resident Goxhill, Died of wounds 12rd March 1918, Commemorated DERNANCOURT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION, Somme / Goxhill All Saints / Goxhill Memorial Hall / Lincolnshire Regiment Roll of Honour WW1
1911 Census Son of Thomas and Annie Elizabeth Beswick, of Goxhill, age 14, born Croxton, Shop Assistant.
Father a Shepherd living around Thorne Lane/Church Farm area of village, Family recorded in village by 1899 (E. Fincham)
SUPREME SACRIFICE- News is to hand that Private Arthur Beswick had died from gunshot wounds. By a melancholy coincidence a paper was read at the Christian Endeavour on the evening of his death, that he had sent from France entitled "The Joys and Sorrows of Life."
Lincolnshire Star – 20 April 1918 – page 2.
Gravesite Details
Private, Lincolnshire Regiment. Age: Unknown.
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