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Surname: BEAUMONT
Forename(s): Benjamin
Place of Birth: Hebden, Yorkshire
Service No: 41274
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Suffolk Regiment
Battalion / Unit: 2nd Battalion
Division: 3rd Division
Age: 24
Date of Death: 1917-09-27
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 40 to 41.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: HEBDEN, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: LINTON-IN-CRAVEN, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Benjamin Beaumont was the son of Benjamin Crook and Margaret Georgina Beaumont, née Matthewman. Benjamin, senior, was born at Birkenhead, Cheshire and Margaret at Altofts, Yorkshire.
1901 Hebden, Yorkshire Census: Benjamin Beaumont, aged 7 years, born Hebden, son of Benjam'n and Margaret Beaumont.
1911 Hebden, Yorkshire Census: Benjamin Beaumont, aged 16 years, born Hebden, son of Benjamin and M.G. Beaumont.
The British Army Pension Record for Benjamin Beaumont exists but may be incomplete. [Benjamin joined the 10th (Service) Bn Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) on the 18 September 1914 and was discharged on the 16 October 1914.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Benjamin Beaumont, 80405, 1st Notts & Derby R.; 41274, 2nd Suff. R.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Benjamin Beaumont, 80405, 1st Notts & Derby R.; 41274, 2nd Suff. R.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Benjamin Beaumont, 41274, 2nd Bn Suffolk Regt. Date and Place of Death: On or since 27.9.17. Death presumed. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Father - Benjamin C. £5 15s. 7d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Benjamin. Name(s) on card(s): Dependant: Mrs Margaret Georgina Beaumont. Claimant: Ben Crook Beaumont. Relationship to Man: Father. Address: Hebden, Skipton.
A short biography of Benjamin is included in: ‘Swaledale & Wharfedale Remembered – Aspects of Dales’ life through peace and war’ by Keith Taylor (2006).
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private Benjamin BEAUMONT
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Suffolk Regiment
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 3rd Division
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The Upper Wharfedale Co., West Riding Regiment
Back row (l-r): T.S. Worsley, R. Harper, W. Oldfield, A. Stubbs, Walter Limmer, W.P. Inman. Front row (l-r): W. Eley, William Burley, C.J. Kelly, Benjamin Beaumont
Our Wharfedale Lads
Recruits to the 'A' Coy 10th Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment) at Grassington Station, September 21st 1914. Front row left-right: 1 - Benjamin Beaumont, 5 - William Burley, 8 - William Limmer. Back row left-right: 8 - Tom Swales
Courtesy of Keith Taylor ('Swaledale and Wharfedale Remembered')
Upper Wharfedale Recruits
Upper Wharfedale Recruits leaving Grassington Station, September 21st 1914. Front row, kneeling, left-right: 1 - ?Arthur Stubbs, 2 - William Burley, 3 - Benjamin Beaumont (his sister Jenny is standing at the far right of the photograph), 4 - R. Harper, 5 - C.J. Kelly. Second row, left-right: 1 - W. Eley, 2 - W. Oldfield, 3 - W.P. Inman, 4 - Walter Limmer, 7 - T.S. Worsley, 8 - T. Darwin. Third row, left-right: 4 - Tom Swales
Courtesy of Keith Taylor (‘Swaledale and Wharfedale Remembered’)
Unknown platoon of 'A' Company, 10th (Service) Battalion, Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment), Aldershot, 1914
Photograph sent home to his parents at Bolton by Bowland by Pte Henry (Harry) Valance Killeen (13738). Henry is standing, with his hands behind his back, 11th from right. His brother, Pte Reginald Victor Whiteley Killeen (q.v.), was killed in action on the 25 January 1916
Courtesy of Paula Ann Payne (née Bailey), Barnoldswick
Thiepval Memorial
Courtesy of John Gardner, Hebden
Thiepval Memorial - detail
Courtesy of John Gardner, Hebden
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26 September 1919
BEAUMONT - In loving memory of Pte. Benjamin Beaumont, 2nd Suffolk Regiment, reported missing and presumed killed, Sept. 27th, 1917.
Sleep on, dear son, as days go by;
No flowers can we lay on the grave where you lie,
For the broad wide ocean does keep us apart;
Your ever smiling face shall dwell in our hearts.
As we look at your picture that hangs an the wall,
The smile on your face we can't but recall.
We miss you, God knows, and mourn you unseen,
And dwell on the memories of days that have been.
From Father, Mother, Sisters and Brothers, Sunny Nook, Hebden.
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