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Remembering Redditch Residents & WW1 Redditch Local History Society

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The Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Messenger – Saturday 20 October
1917

Redditch Officer Killed – Information has been received of the death of Sec.-Lieut.
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Cecil J. Beacham, of the Worcestershire Regiment, who was killed in action on Oct. 9 . Lieut.
Beacham a Redditch man, volunteered for service when in Canada, and was at first attached
to the Artists’ Rifles, O.T.C. He was at once sent to France, where he received his training,
and was gazetted in June. He was the third son of the late Mr Arthur Beacham (formerly of
Moseley), and Mrs Beacham, Ipsley Mount, Redditch. He was 34 years of age and unmarried
and was educated at Alvechurch grammar School and Wycliffe College, Stonehouse,
Gloucestershire. He was widely known in commercial circles, having travelled extensively
abroad as the representative of Messrs. Abel Morrall, Ltd., needle manufacturers, Redditch,
and other well-known houses. He had established a large connection in the Unted States
and Canada, and had been round the world several times. He was a member of the Seymour
Lodge of Freemasons, Redditch, and the Redditch Golf Club. A brother is in the Royal
Garrison Artillery.

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(On Ancestry site Military records, Cecil James Beacham, 2/Lieutenant, 8 Battalion
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(Territorial) Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action, 9 October 1917On the International
find a grave, 2/Lieutenant Cecil James Beacham was remembered at Tyne Cot Memorial,
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Zonnebeke Belgium. It stated Cecil was in ‘D’ Coy, 8 Bn. Worcestershire Regiment, died 9
October 1917. He was aged 34 son of Mary Beacham of Ipsley Mount, Redditch and the late
Arthur Beacham. Cecil had been gazetted from ‘Artists’ Rifles.)
Remembered on St George’s war memorial, Redditch.
(On 1901 census Cecil aged 18, born in Moseley, Manager Boot Business, worker, lived with his mother Mary,
Boot Factor, Employer and his siblings at 21 Worcester Road, Redditch.)

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