Private Alec Beat

Army Number : 15873

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

Born and lived at Dunham-On-Trent, Nottinghamshire. Son of James and Harriet Beat of Dunham-On-Trent, Nottinghamshire. He was a farm worker prior to enlisting at Retford, Nottinghamshire. He went to France 24th September 1915 and was killed in action, 26th June 1916, aged 19, when a German shell hit his dugout, near Locrehoff Farm, Belgium.

Buried Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 2. Row D. Grave 3.

Dranoutre Military Cemetery, Belgium.

Private Alec Beat is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Dunham-On-Trent War Memorial, Dunham-On-Trent, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Ronald Griffiths Beat 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.