Lance Corporal 7241 Joseph BEELEY

2nd Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles

Killed in action, Monday 26th October 1914, France, Age 30

Home address:

290 John Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire

Born:

1884, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire

Parents:

Eliza Ann Beeley and Joseph Beeley
110 Manchester Road, Hyde, Cheshire

Marital Status:

Married to Nancy Beeley (née Shandley)
290 John Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire

Occupation:

Labourer on Railway

Enlisted:

Manchester, Lancashire

Remembered:

Rue-Petillon Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France, plot II, row E, grave 45.

Link to Hyde:

Parents from Hyde

In the 1921 Cenotaph Unvieling Booklet he is listed as having died in 1915.

Brother of Driver 63191 Alfred Beeley and Private 40346 Harold Beeley.

The message on his CWGC gravestone, put there by Mrs N Linney, 290 John St, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire:

IN GOD WE TRUST