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PRIVATE A Beswick

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PRIVATE A Beswick Veteran

Birth
Death
23 Mar 1918
Burial
Dernancourt, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France Add to Map
Plot
III. J. 42.
Memorial ID
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Service number - 201936, 4th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, L.S. 20/4/18.

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.
Service number - 201936, 4th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, L.S. 20/4/18.

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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  • Maintained by: "Shane"
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 7, 2010
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56586558/a-beswick: accessed ), memorial page for PRIVATE A Beswick (unknown–23 Mar 1918), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56586558, citing Dernancourt Communal Cemetery Extension, Dernancourt, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France; Maintained by "Shane" (contributor 49832326).