Name
John Spread Hamilton Beamish
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/11/1915
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
King’s Shropshire Light Infantry
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BROOKWOOD CEMETERY
KA. 176564.
United Kingdom
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 21 Jan 1877 in Lancaster Gate, London son of Rear-Admiral Henry Hamilton and Blanche Georgina (Hughes) Beamish and baptised on 6 Jun 1877. Educated at Haileybury College 1891-94. He married Esme Florence Longstaff in Jul 1915. He was secretary of the British Empire Shakespearean Society.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 13 May 1915. He was injured on 24 May 1915 in Railway Wood near Ypres. He died in London.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
