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Pte. Robert Beaver
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Mangotsfield
(d.8th October 1917)
Robert Beaver was born in Burchell's Green Road, St. George in 1889 and was baptised on 18th July 1889. Bob was one of five children born to James and Mary Ann Beaver (nee Gale) who married on 22nd December 1883 at St. Mary's, Bitton, Glos. By 1911 Bob was employed as a finisher in a boot factory living at 41, New Queen Street, Two Mile Hill. On 25th December 1915 he married Florence Rose Nolan at St. James Church, Mangotsfield.
He served as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was recorded as missing on 8th October 1917 near Polygon Wood, Belgium. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial and also the Mangotsfield United Reformed Church Memorial.
The Army Register of Soldier's Effects shows that Bob's possessions amounted to 1pound.1s.10d which was sent to his widow Flossie on 20th February 1928 with a War Gratuity Grant being sent to her on 22nd December 1919. Robert Beaver was posthumously awarded the Victory and British War medals but not the 1914-1915 Star which indicates that he did not enter France and Flanders until 1916 at the earliest. This corresponds with his War Gratuity which is indicative of him enlisting in 1916.
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