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Surname: BEBEE
Forename(s): Harold
Place of Birth: Skipton, Yorkshire
Service No: 6816
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 2nd Battalion
Division: 5th Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1915-04-18
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Panel 20.
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Harold Bebee was the son of Walter and Fanny Bebee, née Durnell and brother of Private William Arthur Bebee (424297) (q.v.). Their father was born at Trumpington, Cambridgeshire and mother at Marshfield, Gloucestershire.
1891 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 12, Castle View Terrace - Harold Bebee, aged 5 years, born Skipton, son of Walter and Fanny Bebee.
1901 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 78, Rose Terrace - Harold Bebee, aged 15 years, born Skipton, son of Walter and Fanny Bebee.
Harold was married to Georgina Bristowe in 1908. Georgina married William Augustus Harrington in 1920; William died in 1924.
1911 Skipton, Yorkshire Census: 12, Albert Street - Harold Bebee, aged 25 years, born Skipton, husband of Georgina Bebee.
The British Army Service Record for Harold Bebee exists but may be incomplete.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Harold Bebee, 6816, 2 W. Rid. R. Theatre of War first served in: ( - ). Date of entry therein: 13.8.14. K. in A. Correspondence: 16, Garside Street, Kings Cross, Halifax.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Harold Bebee, 6816, W. Rid. R. K. in A. 18.4.15.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Harold Bebee, 6816, 2 W. Rid. R. K. in A. 18.4.15.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Harold Bebee, 6816, 2nd Bn W. Riding Regt. Date and Place of Death: 18.4.15. In action. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow and Sole Legatee - Georgina. £9 17s. 10d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Harold. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Georgina, born 13.6.83. Children: Jack, born 28.12.10. Fanny, born 24.6.11. Walter, born 10.7.13.
Harold is commemorated in the Memorial Books of the Post Office Fellowship of Remembrance.
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:
BEEBY, Harold, 2nd Duke of Wellington’s, 8, Fairfax Street, [Skipton], killed in Flanders early in May 1915, aged 29, formerly employed at Skipton Post Office.
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Private Harold BEBEE
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 5th Division
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Private Harold Bebee
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Entry for the marriage of Harold Bebee and Georgina Bristowe, 16 December 1908
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07 May 1915
ANOTHER SKIPTONIAN KILLED - Private Harold Bebee
Another name has to be added to Skipton's Roll of Honour, the unfortunate one on this occasion being Private Harold Bebee of the 2nd West Riding Regiment, son of Mr. Walter Bebee, of 8, Fairfax Street, Skipton. He was killed in action on April 18th, an official intimation of the sad occurrence having been received by his wife, who, with her three children, resides at Halifax.
Private Bebee joined the West Riding's in his teens and served at Halifax, Dublin, and in India. After leaving the Colours he became a postman at Skipton and later was transferred to Halifax. As a reservist he rejoined his regiment on the outbreak of War and was at the front in time to participate in the fighting which took place during the German advance on Paris.
He was wounded in the early stages and spent some time at home recuperating, but rejoined his regiment in the latter part of February. Since then he has been in several engagements and in a recent letter spoke of having had a narrow escape, his water bottle being shot from his side. Private Bebee was well known in Skipton and his death is much regretted by a large circle of friends.
22 September 1916
BEBEE - September 14th, at the Skipton and District Hospital, Walter Bebee, of Fairfax Street, Skipton, aged 63 years.
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07 May 1915
EX SKIPTON POSTMAN KILLED
This week we have to record the death of another native of Skipton who has been killed during the weekend of Private Harold Beeby of the 2nd (Duke of Wellington's) West Riding Regiment, who until about two years ago was engaged as a postman in the Skipton postal service.
Private Beeby, whose home is at No. 8 Fairfax Street, Skipton, and whose father, Mr. Water Beeby, is employed at Messrs. Wright Bros., mineral water manufacturers, Raikes Road, joined the Army at the early age of fifteen, and shortly afterwards was sent to India. Two years later he was attacked by the deadly dysentery and invalided home. He then became stationed at the Halifax Barracks, where he found service as groom to one of the officers. On his discharge he returned to his native town and worked, as already stated, as a postman until he was transferred to Halifax Post Office. He was twenty-nine years of age, and married, and leaves a wife and three children with whom, as with his parents, much sympathy has been expressed.
On the outbreak of war, Private Beeby was called up and rejoined his old regiment, being immediately drafted to the Front. He was slightly injured in the earliest British engagement, the famous retreat from Mons, and recuperated in an Aberdeen hospital, paying a visit to his old home at Skipton during convalescence. Shortly after his return to the Front in February he wrote to his brother mentioning his narrow escape from death, his water bottle being shot away. Several communications from him had reached his wife, though little of late had been heard, and the news she received from the War Office on Friday came as a severe shock. The brother referred to above is in the National Reserve, and is at present in training at Bradfield, near Sheffield.
24 December 1915
CRAVEN'S ROLL OF HONOUR - SKIPTON
Pte. Harold Beeby, 2nd Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment, killed in Flanders early in May. His home was at No. 8 Fairfax Street, Skipton, and his father is Mr. Walter Beeby. For a time he was employed at the Post Office at Skipton. He was 29 years of age and left a wife and three children.
25 October 1918
Skipton Soldier's Death in Palestine
Pte. Wm. Arthur Bebee, of the London Regiment, husband of Mrs. Bebee, 112, Keighley Road, Skipton, died of dysentery in hospital in Cairo on Oct. 10th. Pte. Bebee, who was 39 years of age, was an old Territorial. He enlisted four years ago in the National Reserve, and spent two and a half years guarding Turkish prisoners. He was transferred 12 months ago to General Allenby's army, and had been serving in Palestine. He was previously employed as a loomer and twister by Mr. Dixon, manufacturer, Firth Shed, Skipton. He leaves a widow and one child. His brother, Pte. Harold Bebee, was killed two years ago.
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