Private Thomas Beeston

Army Number: 201648 (formerly 4574)

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

Son of Sophie Straw, of 14, Hopping Hill Terrace, Milford, Derby. He enlisted on 8th July 1915 at Derby, went to France on 3rd March 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Thomas Beeston is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Milford Community Garden War Memorial, Milford, Derbyshire.