BECKINGSALE, Beauclerc Leigh

Credit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Lieutenant

1st Battalion

Royal Irish Fusiliers

Beauclerc was born 1887 in Wimbledon, Surrey to Beauclerc Bennett & Annie Catherine (nee HUDSON) BECKINGSALE who were living at Fairlee House in Newport around the time of Beauclerc’s death. In 1901 he attended the Isle of Wight College in Appley, Ryde.

Beauclerc enlisted on the outbreak of war & was a veteran of Salonica & Arras being twice wounded & sent home. He returned to France & was Killed in Action, aged 30, by shell fire on the St Quentin Front, The Somme on the 21st of March 1918. His grave was lost during the course of the war & so Beauclerc is commemorated by the Commission upon the Pozieres Memorial in France together with 14,717 of his missing First World War comrades.

Beauclerc is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.