Frank Collett Reeve Beechey

The Beechey Boys

Eight young men from one family went off to fight in the First World War - only three came home.

Frank Beechey

Second Lieutenant, 13th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment.

Frank Beechey was educated at St John's Foundation School for the Sons of Poor Clergy, Leatherhead and had been a schoolmaster at Hornsea and Horsham before joining the staff of De Aston School, Market Rasen, where he remained for some years. He was an excellent footballer and cricketer, and tremendously popular with everybody. He left De Aston to take up a position at the Choir school, Lincoln, where he was when the war broke out. He was then captain of the Lindum football club, and kept wicket for the Lindum Club, at times for the County Eleven. Frank died of his wounds on 14th November 1916. Aged 30. His legs were torn off by a Somme shell. Frank had lain in No Man's Land under enemy fire from dawn until dusk before an army doctor risked his life to crawl out and administer morphine.

Buried in Warlincourt Halte British Cemetery, Saulty, Pas de Calais, France.

http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/beechey.shtml

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060179/Armistice-Day-2011-...

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