Beausire C E 2nd Lt 12th London Regiment

Beausire C E 2nd Lt 12th London Regiment

2nd Lt C E Beausire 12th London Regiment

SECOND LIEUTENANT C. E. BEAUSIRE

12th (COUNTY OF LONDON) BATTALION, THE LONDON REGIMENT (THE RANGERS), T.F.

CHARLES EDWARD BEAUSIRE was the third son of Robert L. Beausire, Banker, and of Letitia his wife. He entered the School in 1908 and left in 1911. After leaving School he spent a year abroad, attending the École de Commerce in Geneva, and was afterwards in Manchester, on the Cotton Exchange.

On the outbreak of War he enlisted as a Private in the 23rd Battalion, The London Regiment, obtained his Commission in the Rangers on November 1st, and left with his Regiment for France in December, 1914. He was in action, in a very exposed and difficult trench in the first line of defence, near Ypres, and was killed, with two of his men, by shell fire, on February 14th, 1915. Age 20.

Source : Memorials Of Rugbeians Who Fell In The Great War Vol 1

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