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: