Name
Robert Harold Beckh
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
15/08/1916
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
East Yorkshire Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CABARET-ROUGE BRITISH CEMETERY, SOUCHEZ
Marquillies Com. Cem. German Extn. Mem. 24
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Broxbourne Town Memorial,
St Augustine’s Church Memorial, Broxbourne,
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath,
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon,
St Augustine's Church Memorial, Hoddesdon
Not on the Great Amwell memorials
Pre War
Born on 1 Jan 1894 in London son of Victor Ferdinand and Edith Maria (Ledward) Beckh of "Thele" Great Amwell, Herts. Educated at Haileybury College 1908-13 and Jesus College, Cambridge.
Wartime Service
He had spent just one year at Jesus College, Cambridge before volunteering with his very close friend from Prep School. Beckh spent most of 1915 training. He was sent to the front in Jun 1916 and was killed passing back through the enemy's wire with his 4-man patrol on the night of 15 Aug 1916.
Additional Information
Robert Beckh published a collection of poems "Swallows in Storm and Sunlight". An early poem expresses his disgust that, even in wartime, industrial unrest should afflict the Nation.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour, Richard Barber
