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Menin Gate, Ypres Menin Gate, Ypres
First Name: Edward Last Name: BEENEY
Date of Death: 03/03/1915 Lived/Born In: Tooting
Rank: Private Unit: Lincolnshire1
Memorial Site: Menin Gate, Ypres

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Age-22

81, Mitcham Road, Tooting

 

On 2nd March, 1915, the 1st Lincolnshire battalion of 9 Brigade, 3rd Division moved into the front line at Ypres where they remained here until relieved two days later. On 3rd March, the day on which Edward Beeney was killed, the battalion diary recorded that the enemy’s artillery was very active especially around the vicinity of battalion HQ.

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