Harry Beaumont (c.1889-1915)

Huddersfield and District Roll of Honour

This page is part of an ongoing project to commemorate and research the lives of those who appear on war memorials and rolls of honour in the local area, who served in the military, or whose deaths were linked to conflict.

Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922

The following extract is from Huddersfield's Roll of Honour: 1914-1922 (2014) by J. Margaret Stansfield:

BEAUMONT, HARRY. Private. No 3552. 2/5th Battalion Duke of Wellington's Regiment. Born Holmfirth. Son of Hirst and Harriet Beaumont, New Fold, Holmfirth. Employed as a plasterer's labourer by Mr John Haigh. Enlisted December 1914. Died of pneumonia at Thoresby Camp, Ollerton, Nottinghamshire, 27.5.1915, aged 25 years. Buried with full military honours in St. JOHN'S CHURCHYARD, UPPERTHONG. Grave location:- B, north of Church, B, 27. (Brother of Private GEORGE WILLIAM BEAUMONT, killed in action, 3.9.1916, q.v.).

ROH:- Holmfirth War Memorial; Huddersfield Drill Hall.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

• Private BEAUMONT
• regiment: Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
• died: Thursday, May 27, 1915
• record ID: 2752013

Links

• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Imperial War Museums: Lives of the First World War

rank: Private

2/5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's Regiment

service number: 3552