Second Lieutenant George Edward Beanland

Army Number : n/a (formerly Private S/7532 Army Ordnance Corps)

Battalion : 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Radford, Nottingham and 449, Alfreton Road, Nottingham. Son of Charles Henry and Hanna Maria Beanland, of 136, Dame Agnes Street, Nottingham. He was a lace warehouse clerk prior to enlisting. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant 24th February 1917 and joined the 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment at Beuvry, France. He was killed in action by shellfire, 30th April 1917, whilst in the line near Crassier, near Loos, France.

Buried St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Loos, France. Plot 1. Row K. Grave 10.

Second Lieutenant George Edward Beanland is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham. 

His brother Private Benjamin Beanland, 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.