James Ernest Beaney
- Birth Date:
- 09.02.1893
- Death date:
- 08.08.1916
- Length of life:
- 23
- Days since birth:
- 47918
- Years since birth:
- 131
- Days since death:
- 39336
- Years since death:
- 107
- Categories:
- WWI participant
- Nationality:
- english
- Cemetery:
- Bouzincourt, Bouzincourt Communal Cemetery Extension Cwgc
Born: Battersea, London, England 09.02.1893
Awards: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal
Rank: Private
Regiment: The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
Unit: "D" Company, 6th Battalion, The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) (37th Brigade, 12th (Eastern) Division). Formerly Army Cyclist Corps.
Enlisted date 15/08/1914 into the East Surrey Regiment based Kingston-On-Thames, Surrey, England.
Private Beaney was posted oversea's to France on May 31st, 1915.
James’s last known place of battle was in the trenches at “Ovillers-la-Boisselle” Somme regain, France, 07.08.1916, he was killed the next day while on cleaning up and rest duties at the wooden Military camp huts in Martinsart Wood by German shell fire.
Source: wikipedia.org, mod.uk
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