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SGT Alfred Ernest Beach

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SGT Alfred Ernest Beach Veteran

Birth
Death
16 Nov 1942 (aged 28)
Llanerfyl, Powys, Wales
Burial
Kilsby, Daventry District, Northamptonshire, England GPS-Latitude: 52.3362846, Longitude: -1.1732308
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Son of Ashton Aden Beach, a railway platelayer, and Annie Maria Terry who were married in 1893, the marriage was registered in Rugby, Warwickshire.

The 1939 England and Wales Register states that Sergt. Beach, aged 25, was employed as an estate agent, and was living with his older sister, Stella Millicent, and her husband, Arthur Christopher Page, at 17, Oakington Road, Paddington, London.

MILITARY DETAILS
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SERGEANT No.933068
ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
UNIT: 101 SQUADRON
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RUGBY AIRMAN KILLED -Rugby Advertiser - 20th November 1942
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News has been received by his parents this week of the death, during air operations, of Sergt. Wireless Operator - Gunner A. E. Beach, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Beach, of Kilsby, Northamptonshire.

Volunteering for the R.A.F. in July 1940, he completed his training, and was to sergeant, being attached to Bomber Command. Sergt. Beach has taken part in more than twenty bombing raids over Germany and German occupied territory, including the big 1,000 bomber raids. He expected to receive a commission in the near future.

In civil life Sergt. Beach was employed, as a lad, at Messrs. Farran's Estate Office, afterwards taking up a position with a firm of Estate Agents in London, where he was employed at the time of joining the R.A.F. While living with his parents at Kilsby, Sergt. Beach was the local correspondent for the "Rugby Advertiser."

The funeral service has been provisionally fixed to take place at St. Faith's Church, Kilsby, at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, and interment will be in the cemetery.
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Military records state that Sergt. Beach was stationed at a military base at Holme-on-Spalding Moor, in Yorkshire, and that he died whilst flying. His plane crashed near Dolwen Hill, near Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire, Wales, during a night cross-country, probably due to the explosion of a photoflash in flight.

Sergt. Beach died aged 28.
Laid to rest on the 21st November.
Son of Ashton Aden Beach, a railway platelayer, and Annie Maria Terry who were married in 1893, the marriage was registered in Rugby, Warwickshire.

The 1939 England and Wales Register states that Sergt. Beach, aged 25, was employed as an estate agent, and was living with his older sister, Stella Millicent, and her husband, Arthur Christopher Page, at 17, Oakington Road, Paddington, London.

MILITARY DETAILS
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SERGEANT No.933068
ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE
UNIT: 101 SQUADRON
*******************

RUGBY AIRMAN KILLED -Rugby Advertiser - 20th November 1942
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News has been received by his parents this week of the death, during air operations, of Sergt. Wireless Operator - Gunner A. E. Beach, the youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Beach, of Kilsby, Northamptonshire.

Volunteering for the R.A.F. in July 1940, he completed his training, and was to sergeant, being attached to Bomber Command. Sergt. Beach has taken part in more than twenty bombing raids over Germany and German occupied territory, including the big 1,000 bomber raids. He expected to receive a commission in the near future.

In civil life Sergt. Beach was employed, as a lad, at Messrs. Farran's Estate Office, afterwards taking up a position with a firm of Estate Agents in London, where he was employed at the time of joining the R.A.F. While living with his parents at Kilsby, Sergt. Beach was the local correspondent for the "Rugby Advertiser."

The funeral service has been provisionally fixed to take place at St. Faith's Church, Kilsby, at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday, and interment will be in the cemetery.
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Military records state that Sergt. Beach was stationed at a military base at Holme-on-Spalding Moor, in Yorkshire, and that he died whilst flying. His plane crashed near Dolwen Hill, near Llanerfyl, Montgomeryshire, Wales, during a night cross-country, probably due to the explosion of a photoflash in flight.

Sergt. Beach died aged 28.
Laid to rest on the 21st November.

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