Lieutenant Rafe Langdon Beddy, 1st Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force). Son of Colonel Edwin Fawcett Beddy and Harriet Alice Beddy (nee Langdon), of Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Indian Army (unattached list) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 25 Jan 1908. Spent his probationary year with a British battalion in India. Was posted to the 5th Gurkha Rifles on 15 Mar 1909. Promoted to Lieutenant 25 Apr 1910. He deployed with his battalion to the Dardanelles in WW1 and they suffered heavy casualties immediately after landing in Apr 1915. On 4 June, the battalion found their way barred by a concealed trench. When Lieutenant Beddy saw a senior officer shot dead, he left his place of relative safety with a machine-gun post to run across open ground and lend a hand. "By some miracle he succeeded in traversing the greater part of the intervening distance but he was then hit in the side, and died the same night aged 27 years." His bravery earned him a Mention in Despatches. He was buried in Pink Farm cemetery, Helles, Turkey.
Actual burial here
He is also commemorated on the Blundells School WW1 memorial boards in Blundell's School, Blundell's Road, Tiverton, Devon, England (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25426) and on 2 memorials in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Actual burial here
He is also commemorated on the Blundells School WW1 memorial boards in Blundell's School, Blundell's Road, Tiverton, Devon, England (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25426) and on 2 memorials in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Lieutenant Rafe Langdon Beddy, 1st Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force). Son of Colonel Edwin Fawcett Beddy and Harriet Alice Beddy (nee Langdon), of Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon. Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Commissioned into the Indian Army (unattached list) as a 2nd Lieutenant on 25 Jan 1908. Spent his probationary year with a British battalion in India. Was posted to the 5th Gurkha Rifles on 15 Mar 1909. Promoted to Lieutenant 25 Apr 1910. He deployed with his battalion to the Dardanelles in WW1 and they suffered heavy casualties immediately after landing in Apr 1915. On 4 June, the battalion found their way barred by a concealed trench. When Lieutenant Beddy saw a senior officer shot dead, he left his place of relative safety with a machine-gun post to run across open ground and lend a hand. "By some miracle he succeeded in traversing the greater part of the intervening distance but he was then hit in the side, and died the same night aged 27 years." His bravery earned him a Mention in Despatches. He was buried in Pink Farm cemetery, Helles, Turkey.
Actual burial here
He is also commemorated on the Blundells School WW1 memorial boards in Blundell's School, Blundell's Road, Tiverton, Devon, England (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25426) and on 2 memorials in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
Actual burial here
He is also commemorated on the Blundells School WW1 memorial boards in Blundell's School, Blundell's Road, Tiverton, Devon, England (see: https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25426) and on 2 memorials in the Royal Memorial Chapel, RMA Sandhurst, Camberley, Surrey Heath Borough, Surrey, England.
Cenotaph here
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Lieutenant, 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force), Indian Army. Age: 27.
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