BEEBY R. His name is on H & W Memorial, Belfast.

[Pere]

Seeking information on a BEEBY, R. listed on Harland & Wolff’s Memorial, Belfast, to the fallen.

Only two BEEBY’S are listed on C.W.G.C. site. One from Australia, the other from Newcastle-on-Tyne.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Stebie9173]

The Newcasle-on-Tyne Robert Beeby, 64141 in the 121st Field Company of the Royal Engineers, enlisted at Belfast so I would suggest that one may be favourite. From SDGW:

 

Name:    Robert Beeby
Birth Place:    Newcastle-on-tyne
Residence:    Newcastle-on-tyne
Death Date:    7 Jun 1917
Death Place:    France and Flanders
Enlistment Place:    Belfast
Rank:    2nd Corporal
Regiment:    Royal Engineers
Regimental Number:    64141
Type of Casualty:    Killed in action
Theatre of War:    Western European Theatre
Comments:    121St Field Coy., R.E.

 

 

However, I have no "insider knowledge"!

 

 

Steve (Beeby)

Edited 22 April , 2019 by Stebie9173

[Stebie9173]

As I alluded to above, I am not related (I think) but the great-nephew of the Newcastle Robert Beeby has posted in this topic:

 

 

[Pere]

Steve,

Thanks very much for your help. I’ve trawled through the Belfast papers without any success. Now you’re given me a possible date I’ll have another look.
Pere

[corisande]

There is an Ancestry Tree that you could check for accuracy, and it included him - Click for Ancestry Tree

 

There is also a pre WW1 Territorial record - click for service record that appears to be him. Gives father Robert and address in Newcastle. You could cross check aginst the census to prove that it is your Robert

 

Soldiers Effects gives his father is Robert

 

Robert Beeby is not in Irish 1911 census

Edited 23 April , 2019 by corisande

[corisande]

He is living in Byker, Northumberland in 1911 census - click for census on FmP

He was a Joiner in all the stuff I have read

If he was working at H&W, then he must have arrived after 1911

Whether he volunteered, or was conscripted, will depend on his residency status. Even though living in Ireland, he could have been conscripted if it was determined that he had, as it were, moved to Belfast to avoid enlistment.

[corisande]

There is a medical record - click - of him in hospital with a shoulder wound in July 1916

[Stebie9173]

There are a few pension records of men with very similar numbers - all enlisting in late January 1915 in Belfast, so all volunteers. All went to the Field Companies of the Ulster Division.

 

 

Steve.

[Stebie9173]

Of interest may be the records of 64142 John Berrick Taylor. He was:

 

Numbered one after Robert Beeby

Born in 1888

Of 517 Shields Road, Walker Gate, Newcastle-on-Tyne

Previously served in the R.E. Volunteers

A joiner

Enlisted at Belfast on 25-1-1915

 

Probably a friend and or work colleague of Robert?

 

His trade certificate links him to Harland and Wolf - he was test for proficiency when enlisting at H&W:

 

 

 

 

Steve.

Edited 23 April , 2019 by Stebie9173

[Pere]

To all who answered my query. Many thanks. Even after all these years I am still astonished by the amount of detailed knowledge available on the forum. I eventually plan to put up the names of The Fallen from Harland & Wolff, Belfast.