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Pte. Francis Henry Beeson
British Army 7th Btn., D Coy Somerset Light Infantry
Francis Beeson enlisted at the start of the war. He was said to have fought in the Battle of the Somme and been gassed.
He was in hospital in Rouen on 12th of March 1917 after 6 days in water filled trench up to his thighs where he suffered severe trench foot. He was sent back to England until September of that year.
On return to France he may have been with the 6th Somerset Light Infantry (he was by the end of the war). He was captured on 21st of March 1918 and taken to Germany and used as slave labour until released from a POW camp in November 1918.