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Cecil J. Beacham
Ancestry site Military records
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2/Lieutenant Cecil James Beacham, 8 Battalion (Territorial) Worcestershire Regiment, killed
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in action, 9 October 1917. On the International find a grave, 2/Lieutenant Cecil James
Beacham is remembered on Tyne Cot Memorial, Panel 75 to 77 Zonnebeke Belgium. It
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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.
2/Lieutenant Cecil James Beacham – source:-www.findagrave.com
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,
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Boot Factor, Employer and his siblings at 21 Worcester Road, Redditch. On 6 February 1913 Cecil James
Beacham was initiated into the Seymour Lodge, Redditch and he was aged 29 and classed as a traveller. He
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had also been a initiated into Mendelssohn Lodge (a London Masonic Lodge) at the age of 26 on 30 January
1910 and was classed as a commercial traveller.
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