Lieutenant Edward Gerald Beal

Army Number : n/a (formerly S/6348 Rifle Brigade, TR13/13225 Kings Royal Rifle Corps)

Battalion : 12th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Arthur Edward and Annie Elizabeth Beal, of 16, Henry Road, West Bridgford, Nottingham. He was clotheares assistant prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He died of wounds, 6th November 1918, aged 21, whilst attached to the 8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Buried  Wargnies-Le-Petit Communal Cemetery, France. In South-East Part.

Lieutenant Edward Gerald Beal is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Giles Church War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottingham.
St. Stephen’s Church War Memorial, Sneinton, Nottingham.
West Bridgford War Memorial, West Bridgford, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham. 

His brother Corporal Wilfred Arthur Beal, 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade, also fell in the Great War.