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Name William Beesley No. B 203174
VC Issue No. 1002 Awards VC
Regiment Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), 13th Battalion
Later Royal Green Jackets
Now 2nd and 4th battalions the rifles
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Sergeant
Place Of Birth Gresley, Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Place Of Death In hospital Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Buried/Location Ashes St Paul's Cemetery (Foleshill St Paul's Burial Ground), Holbrooks Avenue, Holbrooks, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 28 June 1918
VC Presented 9 August 1918 by King George V at 3rd Army HQ, Chateau Frohen-le-Grand, Lucheux, France
Memorials
P Headstone, St Paul's Cemetery (Foleshill St Paul's Burial Ground), Holbrooks Avenue, Holbrooks, Coventry, Warwickshire, England
P Named on Rifle Brigade Role of Fame Memorial, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
P Memorial Plaque, at War Memorial, Coventry, West Midlands
William Beesley Crescent, Gamecock Barracks, Bramcote, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
By The Way…
He was a Coal Miner before and after the war, but retiring in 1960 as a Commissionaire.
VC Held By
Royal Green Jackets Museum, Peninsular Barracks, Romsey Road, Winchester, Hampshire, England
BORN 5 October 1895
DIED 23 September 1966 AGE 70
VC Won 8 May 1918 AGE 22
Place VC Won Bucquoy, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
