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    Memorial

    Beechey Boys - Tablet

    Beechey Family - tablet

    Source: Copyright John E Scurr

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    Current Location

    South wall of the nave adjacent to the window, St Peters Church, Church Lane, Friesthorpe, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, LN3 5AL, England

    OS Grid Reference

    TF 07200 83412

    Denomination

    Church of England

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    © WMR-54274

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    Type of Memorial
    Board / Plaque / Tablet
    WMR Reference Number
    54274
    Description
    Wall-mounted, landscape orientated, plain white marble tablet with incised lettering picked out in black, commemorating five brothers who died in WW1 while serving in the army. Beneath, resting on top of the wooden wall boards is a single framed and glazed set of images of the five brothers.
    Inscription
    IN PROUD/ AND/ GRATEFUL MEMORY OF/ SGT BARNARD R BEECHEY./ PTE CHARLES R BEECHEY./ RFM LEONARD R BEECHEY./ 2ND LT FRANK C R BEECHEY./ LCPL HAROLD R BEECHEY./ WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR./ 1914-1919./ BELOVED SONS OF THE LATE/ REVD P W T BEECHEY./ SOMETIME RECTOR OF THIS PARISH.
    War
    First World War (1914-1918)
    Number Commemorated
    5
    Died
    5
    Information shown
    Surname, forename, initials, rank, relationships

    Components

    Tablet

    Height: 430mm

    Width: 640mm


    Made from: Marble - White


    Condition: Good


    Report a Concern

    War Memorials Trust Reference Number
    222418

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    Help update these details if the condition is wrongWar Memorials Register Logo
    • Walsh, Michael, 'Brothers in Arms', Ancestors, September 2006, pp. 49-52.
  • Walsh, Michael, 'Brothers in Sacrifice: family who lost five sons to horrors of war', Sunday Telegraph, 5 November 2006, p. 10.
  • Venning, Annabel, 'The Mother Who Lost Five Sons', Daily Mail, Friday 11 November 2011, pp. 30-31.
  • Walsh, Michael, Brothers in War, London: Ebury Press, 2007.
  • Anonymous, 'Lincoln & North Lincolnshire', The Western Front Association Bulletin, 91, October/ November 2011, p. 35.