Private Harry Beeson
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Army Number: 241149 (formerly 3638)
Battalion: 1/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.
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Born and lived at Clay Cross, Derbyshire. Son of Samuel and Martha Beeson, of Thanet Street, Clay Cross. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting on 23rd January 1915 at Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He went to France on 4th March 1916 and was killed in action, on 24th May 1917, aged 21, whilst in the line near Cite St. Pierre, northwest of Lens, France.
Buried Maroc British Cemetery, Grenay, France. Plot 2. Row A. Grave 15.
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Private Harry Beeson is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St, Bartholomew’s Church War memorial, Clay Cross, Derbyshire.