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Pte. Willie Beaumont

British Army 1st Battalion Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

from:Gomersal, W.Yorks

(d.8th May 1915)

Willie Beaumont was born in 1896. One of 8 children whose parents were Blackburn Beaumont and Eliza Beaumont of Gomersal, W.Yorks. Blackburn was a joiner and the family lived at Church Lane. In the 1911 census Willie is a newsboy at the Station News Shop. Blackburn Beaumont was my great grandfather, George's brother.

Willie is commemorated on his parent's gravestone in St Mary's Church Graveyard, Gomersal and also at the Menin Gate (though here the date of death is given as August).



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