WW1 Gloucs.Regt D.O.W. Grouping.

A particularly poignant grouping to 18551 Pte.G.Beaney, 13th Btn. Gloucester Regt. Beanie was wounded in the leg in December 1916 and was evacuated to a hospital in Aldershot where he died on 28/12/1916 probably of gangrene. Beaney was originally from Silksworth near Sunderland and it was there he was buried, the grouping contains various bills from his funeral, wreaths etc and a newspaper report of the funeral. Most poignant are a series of letters exchanged with his wife and father and children. His father actually visited him in hospital only for Beaney to die very shortly after, also includes letters from nursing staff and volunteers who visited him in hospital. There is other correspondence and momentos of earlier service and also some correspondence re a Thomas Evans killed in action serving with the KOSB at Gallipoli and resident at the same address as Beaney's wife, possibly a brother in law. A grouping that would reward further research and a particularly poignant reminder of the vast numbers of casualties incurred by the British Army. Contained in the original box in which it was found. CWGC and MIC information included.

Code: 7630