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About Harold Reeve Beechey
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Eight young men from one family went off to fight in the First World War - only three came home.
Harold Beechey
Lance Corporal 200, 48th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
Born Friesthorpe Rectory, Lincoln. Harold was a pupil at De Aston School, Market Rasen and emigrated to Western Australia aged 22. Harold and Chris had been farming in the WA Wheatbelt when war broke out. Harold enlisted in the Australian Infantry on 9th September 1914 in Perth. He came to Egypt and then to Gallipoli, where he fought Turks and dysentery, being invalided twice. He survived the Hell of Pozières (Somme) but was sent to England to recover from his wounds. He wrote home:
"Very lucky, nice round shrapnel through arm and chest, but did not penetrate ribs. Feel I could take it out myself with a knife."
Harold was patched up and sent back to fight again. He wrote bitterly to his mum:
"To deny a fellow the right of a final leave seems to me to be miserable spitefulness on their part."
He came home to recover but was sent back to France in November 1916, being killed by a bomb in Bullecourt on 10th April 1917, aged 26. His death was mercifully speedy.
No known grave. Commemorated on Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Somme, France.
Amy wrote: "I am thankful that he did not suffer long. Poor boy, he had been invalided twice and wounded once and we hoped he would come through."
http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/beechey.shtml
https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=18415
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2060179/Armistice-Day-2011-...
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=16179792
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Harold Reeve Beechey's Timeline
| 1891 |
March 22, 1891
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Friesthorpe Rectory, Lincolnshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1917 |
April 10, 1917
Age 26
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