Lieutenant MONTMORENCY BEAUMONT BEAUMONT-CHECKLAND
Regiment & Unit/Ship
West Somerset Yeomanry
2nd/1st
Date of Death
Died 17 August 1917
Age 33 years old
- Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 7th Bn. Somerset Light Infantry
- Country of Service United Kingdom
- Additional Info Son of William and Amy de Beaumont Beaumont-Checkland, and grandson of the Comte de Beaumont. Enlisted 1914; volunteered for Infantry 1916. B.A., Barrister-at-Law, Inner Temple. Led up a small reinforcement to hold the line against a strong counter-attack, and fell within four miles of the Memorial.
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