Name
George Beaumont
April 1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1916
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
3777
London Regiment (Queen Victoria's Rifles)
1st/9th (County of London) Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 9 C.
France
Headstone Inscription
He has no Headstone. He is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the missing.
UK & Other Memorials
Bushey Town Memorial, St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Wesleyan (Bushey & Oxhey Methodist) Church Memorial, Oxhey, Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Watford, Post Office Memorial, Wesleyan Methodist (now Bushey & Oxhey) Church Memorial, Oxhey
Pre War
He was the son of George Beaumont, an iron founder, and his wife, Nellie Beaumont (nee Foskett), who lived at 40 Capel Road, Oxhey.
His parents married 22 October 1892 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey, Herts. George died 1922 in Bushey, Herts, aged 52, and was buried 15 June in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
George was born on 14th April 1895 in Watford, and baptised 21 June 1895 at St Matthew’s, Oxhey. He resided in Watford, and was employed by the Watford Post Office.
On the 1901 Census, aged 5 he lived in Oxhey, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, a Post Office messenger aged 15, he still lived in Oxhey, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He volunteered in November 1914, enlisted in London as Rifleman formerly 3777 then 391103 with 1st/9th London Regt. (Queen Victoria Rifles) and in the following May was drafted to the Western Front. While in this theatre of War he was involved in several important engagements, including the Battle of the Somme, in which he was killed on 1 July 1916.
He is remembered with honour on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. He is commemorated on the memorial at Bushey and Oxhey Methodist Church.
Additional Information
The value of his effects were £5-9s-8d, Pay Owing and £7, War Gratuity which went to his father George Beaumont. He has an entry in the National Roll of the Great War. His elder brother Harry was still serving in 1920. Information provided with kind permission of Bushey First World War Commemoration Project – Please visit www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk.
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
