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Surname: BEADON
Forename(s): Basil Herbert Edwards
Place of Birth: Almondbury, Yorkshire
Service No: ---
Rank: Captain
Regiment / Corps / Service: Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Battalion / Unit: 1/7th (Merioneth & Montgomery) Battalion
Division: 53rd (Welsh) Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1915-08-10
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 78 to 81.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: HELLES MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Basil Herbert Edwards Beadon (born 11 January 1888) was the son of Frederick Watson and Elizabeth Eleanora Beadon, née Bolam. Frederick was born at Bath, Somerset and Elizabeth at Whitburn, Co. Durham.
1891 Moldgreen, Almondbury, Yorkshire Census: Longley Hall - Basil Edward Beadon, aged 3 years, born Almondbury, son of Fredk Watson and Elizth Eleanora Beadon.
1901 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Census: Sandford Road (Leighmore) - Basil H.E. Beacher [sic], aged 13 years, born Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Boarder.
1911 Kerry, Montgomeryshire Census: Springfields - Basil Beadon, aged 23 years, born, Almondbury, Yorkshire. Land Agent.
Basil was married to Margaret Elizabeth Maynard in 1913. Margaret married Gerald James Wehl in 1919. At the time of their marriage, Gerald was a Captain in the 1st Bn East Lancashire Regiment.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Capt Basil Herbert Edwards Beadon, 7/R. W. Fus., T.F. Theatre of War first served in: (2B) [Balkans]. Date of entry therein: 7 [July]. 1915. K. in A. 10.8.15. Correspondence: Widow Mrs. M.E. Wehl, Brocketts, Much Hadham, Herts.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Capt B.H.E. Beadon. R. W. Fusiliers. K. in A. 10.8.15.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: Capt B.H.E. Beadon, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Remarriage. Widow.
Record of Officers' Effects: Capt. B.H.E. Beadon, 7 Welsh Fuslrs. Date and Place of Death: 10.8.15. Dardanelles. Killed in Action. To whom issued/Amount: £92 11s. 5d. to Exor., Anthony Charles Hutton Maynard Esq.
Basil is commemorated on Almondbury War Memorial; Waterloo R.U.F.C. Roll and in 'Huddersfield's Roll of Honour 1914-1922' by J. Margaret Stansfield (2014).
Photograph: 'de Ruvigny's Roll of Honour 1914-1918' – Part One.
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
BEADON, Capt. Basil Herbert Edwards, adjutant of the 7th Royal Welsh Fus., took keen interest in Scout movement, engaged in Estate Office, Skipton Castle, killed in action Aug. 1915.
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Captain Basil Herbert Edwards BEADON
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 53rd (Welsh) Division
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