Horatio Wilfred Arthur Beechey

Forenames

Horatio Wilfred Arthur AWMM

Surname

Beechey AWMM

Also known as

• Beachey AWMM
• Horatio Wilfred A. Beechey AWMM

Service number

WWI 26/1056 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Next of kin

Mrs F. Beechey (mother), 125 Wellesley Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 05 Feb 1916 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 26/1056 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM Bushman/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 05 Feb 1916-15 Mar 1916 AWMM
HMNZT 43 AWMM Vessel was Mokoia AWMM Rifleman AWMM 4th Battalion, D Company AWMM New Zealand Rifle Brigade AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Rifleman AWMM
New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 4th Battalion AWMM

Horatio Beechey was the son of Arthur Ernest and Frances Mary Beechey, of Auckland, New Zealand.

Next of Kin: Mr E. A. Beechey, Newmarket, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Death

18 Jan 1918 AWMM
Age  20 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Cemetery

Oxford Road Cemetery, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM III. J. 20. AWMM

Memorial name

• Newmarket War Memorial, Olympic Park, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM
• The Borough of Newmarket War Memorial, Auckland Council Archives AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22274139
  Further Reference
• HMNZT 43 - The Mokoian: Being a record of the early stages of the journeyings of the 4th Battalion N.Z.R.B. (E.L.O.) (Mokoian souvenir ed.). (1916, February). The Times of Ceylon Company Ltd.
  https://dunedin.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/201167
  Further Reference
• Newmarket Roll of Honour World War I Index, Auckland Council Archives
  http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/CityArchives/FamilyHistory/NMB008/searchnewmarket.htm
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/439039/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/439039
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1917). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume II. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  24: 29
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Austin, W. (1924). The official history of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade (The Earl of Liverpool's Own). Wellington, N.Z.: L T Watkins.
• HMNZT 43 - The Mokoian: Being a record of the early stages of the journeyings of the 4th Battalion N.Z.R.B. (E.L.O.) (Mokoian souvenir ed.). (1916, February). The Times of Ceylon Company Ltd.