Private Robert Beeson

Army Number: 1545

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born 1895 and lived at Derby. Son of Robert and Nellie Beeson, of 33 Moss Street, Derby. He was a preserves maker and later worked for the Midland Railway as a labourer in the Chief Mechanical Engineering Department at Derby Station, prior to enlisting 29th March 1912 at Derby. He went to France on 1st March 1915 and was killed in action, 15th November 1915, whilst serving in the line near Vieille Chapelle, France. 

Commemorated: Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Private Robert Beeson is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
St. Luke’s Church War Memorial, Derby.
Midland Railway Memorial, Derby