Basil Herbert Edwards BEADON

England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966

1916

BEADON Basil Herbert Edwards of Ashgrove Cottage Deighton Huddersfield captain Royal Welsh Fusiliers died 10 August 1915 at the Gallipoli Peninsula Probate London 12 January to Anthony Charles Hutton Maynard esquire. Effects £1042 19s 8d.

1918

BEADON Elizabeth Eleanora of Longley Hall Huddersfield (wife of Frederick Watson Beadon) died 27 December 1917 Administration London 1 February to the said Frederick Watson Beadon estate agent. Effects £440 0s. 10d.

1933

BEADON Frederick Watson of Manor House Gainford county Durham died 23 January 1933 Probate London 22 February to Frederick Scarth Beadon land agent. Effects £6665 17s. 10d.

BRITISH REGIMENTS AT GALLIPOLI, by Ray Westlake (Pen & Sword Books Limited 1996)

1/7th (Merioneth & Montgomery) Bn. Royal Welsh Fusiliers

AUGUST 1915

Landed 'C' Beach during morning (9th) then marched to bivouacs west side of Lala Baba. Ordered (10th) to relieve 159th Brigade in forward area then advance on enemy positions at Scimitar Hill. Moved forward across Salt Lake 5 a.m. in centre of Brigade attack. Came under heavy shrapnel fire then rifle and machine gun. War Diary records . . . 'engaged all day. Fighting ceased 7.30 p.m.' Withdrew to 1st and 2nd line trenches. Casualties included 15 officers

[The officer casualties included Basil Herbert Edwards Beadon.]

DE RUVIGNY'S ROLL OF HONOUR 1914-1918 - Part One

BEADON, BASIL HERBERT EDWARDS, Capt. and Adjutant, 7th Battn. (Merioneth and Montgomery) Royal Welsh Fusiliers (T.F.), yr. s. of Col. Frederick Watson Beadon, of Longley Hall, Huddersfield, V.D., Land Agent for the Ramsden Estates, Huddersfield, formerly commanding the 5th and 7th West Riding Regt., by his wife, Elizabeth Eleonora, dau. of the late William Bolam, of High Cross House, Newcastle-on-Tyne; b. Longley Hall, co. York, 11 Jan. 1887; educ. Cheltenham College and Sedbergh, and took up his father's profession of Land Agent. He was brought up on the Ramsden Estate, then on the Duke of Buccleuch's Rugby estate, and finally on Lord Hothfield's Shipton [Skipton] property, whence he went to Mr. Naylor-Leyland's Kerry (Mongomeryshire) estate as sub-agent, and returned to the Ramsden estates as assistant to his father in 1912. He had joined the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1908, and on leaving the county passed into the 7th Royal Welsh Fusiliers in July, 1910, of which he was appointed Lieut. 18 July, 1913, and Capt. and Adjutant, 21 Nov. 1914. On the declaration of war he volunteered with his battn. for foreign service, and was sent to the Dardanelles. Capt. Beadon was killed in action at Suvla Bay, 10 Aug. 1915. According to a letter received by his father he was wounded in the morning, but was able to remain in the fighting line throughout the day. In the evening he had just concluded a consultation with his colonel and was turning to speak to another officer when he was shot by a sniper and killed instantly. He was buried there at 6 a.m. on 11 Aug. He was a keen footballer, and played in the Huddersfield Old Boys' Rugby Union. Capt. Beadon m. at Boroughbridge, 14 Jan. 1913, Margaret Elizabeth, dau. of the late Anthony Maynard, of Newton Hall, co. Durham, M.F.H. North Durham Hounds, and had a dau., Joan, b. 1 Feb. 1915. His brother, Lieut. Scarth Beadon, is now (1916) the transport officer in the 18th Durham L.I.