Name
Albert (Bert) James Beaumont
29 Jul 1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
12/12/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
TR/9/8002
Bedfordshire Regiment
27th Training Reserve
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MARKYATE (ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST) NEW CHURCHYARD
B. 228.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Markyate Village Memorial, St John The Baptist Church Memorial, Markyate
Pre War
Albert James was born on 29 Jul 1892 in Luton to Frederick Beaumont, butcher, and Agnes (nee Rowley).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Alice (born 1888), Mabel (born 1890), Albert J, Frederick A (born 1895), Elizabeth G (born 1896) were living at High Street, Markyate, also recorded was Arthur Lacey as assistant butcher.
On the 1911 Census the Family of parents, Mabel A, Albert J, Frederick Arthur, and Elizabeth Gertrude were living at 38 High Street, Markyate. Mother Agnes, Albert and Frederick were assisting in the Butchery.
Wartime Service
Albert (known as Bert) volunteered at Luton on 2 Sep 1914 and attested for the Bedfordshire Regiment as Private 13391 on 3 Sep 1914 and believed to have been posted to 10 (Reserve) Battalion.
Promoted to Serjeant on 27 Oct 1914.
Albert was posted to 27th Young Soldier Battalion on 31 Oct 1914 which had no Regimental Affiliation and was based at Clipstone Camp in Nottinghamshire.
On 1 Sep 1919 He was renumbered as Serjeant TR/9/8002 in Training Reserve but had been sent to Hospital on 30 Aug 1916 with Appendicitis and Abscess. He died at St Albans on 12 Dec 1918.
Additional Information
War gratuity of £9 ans arrears of £17 10s 3d was paid to his father.
Bert's headstone (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
IN EVER LOVING MEMORY OF “BERT”
ALBERT JAMES BEAUMONT SERGT. 10TH BEDS REGT. WHO DIED DECEMBER 12 1916. AGE 24 YEARS.
NOT GONE FROM MEMORY NOR GONE FROM LOVE, BUT GONE TO SERVE HIS KING ABOVE.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, Anne & Gordon Mead
