Beale E Pte PS/3442 19th Royal Fusiliers.
Taken on 7th May 1915.
Photo copied and cropped from The Past on Glass at Sutton Archives.
Photographer David Knights-Whittome. Shared under the Creative Commons Non Commercial
Beale Edgar Sergt PS/3442 19th Royal Fusiliers.
To France with the 19th Royal Fusiliers 12th Nov 1915
Killed In Action La Bassée Road 2nd Jan 1916
BEALE, EDGAR, Sergt., No. 3442, 16th Platoon, 19th (Service) Battn. (2nd Public Schools) The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), only s. of Edgar Beale, of Middle Bourne, Farnham, Miller and Farmer, Frensham Mills, co. Surrey, by his wife, Katharine Ann, dau. of William Langrishe, of Headley, co. Hants; b. Frensham Mills aforesaid, 2 Dec. 1892; educ. Mr. Poole’s Preparatory School, Hadleigh House, Littlehampton; Lancing College, where he was a member of the School Corps, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained an O.T.C. Certificate; was engaged in Milling and Farming; joined the Public Schools Battn. Royal Fusiliers in Sept. 1914, after the outbreak of war; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Nov. 1915, when he commanded the 16th Platoon, and was killed in action on the La Bassée Road, between Annequin and Beuvry, 2 Jan. 1916. Buried in the Military Cemetery at Bethune; unm.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 3