BEECHEY Charles Reeve. Private. 58708. 25th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, formerly PS/10747 Royal Fusiliers. Died of wounds East Africa 20th October 1917, aged 39 years. Son of (the late) Rev. Prince William Thomas and Amy Beechey (nee Reeve) of 197 Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincs. Born Pinchbeck, enlisted and resident Stamford, Lincs. Commemorated DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY. 6.E.3. / Addition to Grave Marker [LNC] / Friesthorpe St. Peter / Lincoln "In Memoriam" / Lincoln All Saints / Lincoln City W.M. / Lincoln Memory Book / Snarford St Lawrence / Stamford Broad Street / Stamford School
News has been received by Mrs. Beechey, widow of the Rev. P. W. T. Beechey, late vicar of Friesthorpe, of the death from wounds in East Africa of her son, Charles Reeve Beechey, Royal Fusiliers, who was a master at Stamford Grammar School. Three other sons have been killed in France, and another soldier son died at Rouen. One, Bernard Beechey, was a schoolmaster at Lincoln, and another Frank, was at one time a master of Lincoln Cathedral Choir School. Three other sons survive. Of these, one had been discharged from the Army paralysed, and the other two are still serving. All the brothers joined up as volunteers, two of them enlisting in Australia, where they were farming.
Lincolnshire Echo 21 January 1918
News has been received by Mrs. Beechey, widow of the Rev. P. W. T. Beechey, late vicar of Friesthorpe, of the death from wounds in East Africa of her son, Charles Reeve Beechey, Royal Fusiliers, who was a master at Stamford Grammar School. Three other sons have been killed in France, and another soldier son died at Rouen. One, Bernard Beechey, was a schoolmaster at Lincoln, and another Frank, was at one time a master of Lincoln Cathedral Choir School. Three other sons survive. Of these, one had been discharged from the Army paralysed, and the other two are still serving. All the brothers joined up as volunteers, two of them enlisting in Australia, where they were farming.
Lincolnshire Echo 21 January 1918
BEECHEY Charles Reeve. Private. 58708. 25th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, formerly PS/10747 Royal Fusiliers. Died of wounds East Africa 20th October 1917, aged 39 years. Son of (the late) Rev. Prince William Thomas and Amy Beechey (nee Reeve) of 197 Wragby Road, Lincoln, Lincs. Born Pinchbeck, enlisted and resident Stamford, Lincs. Commemorated DAR ES SALAAM WAR CEMETERY. 6.E.3. / Addition to Grave Marker [LNC] / Friesthorpe St. Peter / Lincoln "In Memoriam" / Lincoln All Saints / Lincoln City W.M. / Lincoln Memory Book / Snarford St Lawrence / Stamford Broad Street / Stamford School
News has been received by Mrs. Beechey, widow of the Rev. P. W. T. Beechey, late vicar of Friesthorpe, of the death from wounds in East Africa of her son, Charles Reeve Beechey, Royal Fusiliers, who was a master at Stamford Grammar School. Three other sons have been killed in France, and another soldier son died at Rouen. One, Bernard Beechey, was a schoolmaster at Lincoln, and another Frank, was at one time a master of Lincoln Cathedral Choir School. Three other sons survive. Of these, one had been discharged from the Army paralysed, and the other two are still serving. All the brothers joined up as volunteers, two of them enlisting in Australia, where they were farming.
Lincolnshire Echo 21 January 1918
News has been received by Mrs. Beechey, widow of the Rev. P. W. T. Beechey, late vicar of Friesthorpe, of the death from wounds in East Africa of her son, Charles Reeve Beechey, Royal Fusiliers, who was a master at Stamford Grammar School. Three other sons have been killed in France, and another soldier son died at Rouen. One, Bernard Beechey, was a schoolmaster at Lincoln, and another Frank, was at one time a master of Lincoln Cathedral Choir School. Three other sons survive. Of these, one had been discharged from the Army paralysed, and the other two are still serving. All the brothers joined up as volunteers, two of them enlisting in Australia, where they were farming.
Lincolnshire Echo 21 January 1918
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