Page 41 - WW1 - 1916

Redditch Local History Society Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1

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Captain Leslie St Clair Cheape, 1 (Kings) Dragoon Guards, Household Cavalry and Cavalry of
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the Line, killed in action, 23 April 1916, Egypt on active service. Mentioned on Jerusalem
Memorial Part One, Israel. Parents G. C. Cheape of Wellfield, Gateside, Fife, and Mrs Cheape
of Bentley Manor, Worcestershire. Recorded at Strathmiglo Cemetery, Fife , Scotland.
Remembered on St Philip’s war memorial, Webheath and St Bartholomew’s Church war memorial, Tardebigge.
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(On Ancestry site Probate records Leslie St Clair Cheape of Tidoran, Island of Mull, Captain, 1 Dragoons, died
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23 April 1916 in Egypt.
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On the 1911 census Captain Leslie St Clair Cheape, 1 Dragoon Guards, born in Fifeshire, was serving in India.
On 1901 census Leslie St Clair Cheape, aged 19, militia, lived with his widowed mother Maud Mary Cheape at
Bentley Manor.)

Ancestry site Military records

Thomas Beckensale, born in Rushen Isle of Man, resided Level Colby, Isle of Man, enlised in
Worcester, Service No 2223, Worcester Yeomanry, Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars,
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Household Cavalry and Cavalryof the Line, killed in action 23 April 1916, Egypt. Thomas
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Henry Beckensale, Service No 2223, Queen’s Own Worcestershire Hussars, died 23 April
1916, Remembered on Jerusalem Memorial, Part 1 A-L, Israel, Aged 32, son of Charles and
Jane Beckensale of The Level, Colby, Isle of Man.
A Thomas Henry Beckensale is remembered on St Philip’s Church war memorial, Webheath and St
Barthelomew’s Church war memorial, Tardebigge.

Ancestry site Military records

Private Charles Howard Smith, resided in Wolverhampton and enlisted in Worcester, Service
No 325302, Worcester Yeomanry (The Queen’s own Worcestershire Hussars), Household
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Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line, killed in action, 23 April 1916, Egypt. Remembered on
Jerusalem Memorial, Israel, son of the late Bryan Hinton Smith and Mary S. P. Smith.
Remembered on Astwood Bank war memorial and Astwood Bank Baptist Church memorial.
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(On Ancestry site Probate reocrds Charles Howard Smith from Astwood Bank, died 23 April 1916 at Katia,
Egypt.

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