Major Charles Harold Longfield BEATTY DSO

Major Charles Harold Longfield Beatty D.S.O.

Died 17th May 1917, London

Commander of Canadian Expeditionary Force and attached to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, ADC to Brigadier General E. Alderson

Buried at Atherstone Cemetery with full military honours 22nd May 1917

Eldest son of Captain David Longfield Beatty

Husband of Mrs Alice Beatty (nee Beck)

Father of Charles Beatty

Major Beatty was the brother of Admiral Sir David Beatty, Commander of the Fleet. He lived at Oakfield in South Street, Atherstone. He was also as well-known horse trainer.

His death was reported in several newspapers, giving lots of information about his life:

21st May 1917 The Birmingham Post, Dublin Daily Express, Evening Despatch Birmingham

23rd May 1917 The Scotsman Edinburgh, Dublin Daily Express

24th May 1917 Limerick Chronicle

25th May 1917 Atherstone News & Herald, Coventry Graphic, Nantwich Guardian

26th May 1917 Free Press Wexford

Links to Relevant Information

CWGC Page for Major Beatty

• NNWFHS Atherstone War Memorial Page
• Atherstone Cemetery
• Royal Warwickshire Regiment

• Distinguished Service Order Citation
  Lord Kitchener’s Despatch of 8 Jul 1901 gives a few details of Beatty’s gallantry:
  At Evergreen, Eastern Transvaal, on 17th February, when Major Howard and orderly were killed, he went back to fetch assistance through very close and heavy fire; his horse was killed, hit three times. (London Gazette 20.8.1901). Read more here…