Private 24518 George Leonard BEESLEY

Private 24518 George Leonard Beesley{gallery}NuneatonRWR-Menin Gate{/gallery}1st / 5th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Killed in action in the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), France and Flanders, 13th August 1917, aged 23

• Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. Panel 8
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of Albert Fred and Elizabeth Beesley
• NNWFHS Memorial: Nuneaton WWI RWR

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Record for Private Beesley
• Ypres Menin Gate Memorial
• Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Military, Census and Family History Information

• Born Apr Qtr 1894 at Nuneaton, name recorded as Leonard George Beesley
  
• Lived at 16 James Street, Nuneaton [1901 & 1911]
• Employed as a bricklayer [1911]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton