Private Frederick Beighton

Army Number: 328035 (formerly 1566 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.)

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Lenton, Nottingham. Son of Robert and Ann Maria Beighton, of 31, Tyre Street, New Lenton, Nottingham. He was a leatherworker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He died 16th February 1917.

Buried/Commemorated : St. Amand British Cemetery, France. Plot 1. Row C. Grave 9.

Private Frederick Beighton is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Lenton War Memorial, Lenton, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham

His brother Private Henry Beighton, 15th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.