The Bowes Museum Beer Frederick (Fred)

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Name:

Frederick (Fred) Beer

Casualty No.:

Initials:

Service No.:

350207

Date of Birth:

1877

Place of Birth:

Barnard Castle, Parish of St Mary's

Age at Death:

Ranks:

Private; Lance Corporal; Sergeant

Unit:

6th D.L.I (Durham Light Infantry); 2nd/6th D.L.I ; 23rd D.L.I ; and 26th D.L.I

Teesdale Township:

Barnard Castle, Startforth

Place Enlisted:

Home Address:

1891, Startforth, North Yorkshire; 1901, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle; 1911, 5 North Bede Terrace, Barnard Castle; 1919, 21 Newgate, Barnard Castle

Civilian Employment:

Grocer's Assistant; Wine and Spirit Merchant's Manager, working for Jonathan Dawson

Cause of Death:

Date of Death:

Place of Death:

Battles & Campaigns:

Locally Commemorated:

UK Commemorated:

Overseas Commemorated:

Buried:

Decoration and Medals:

Service :

Army

Service Records:

Home Service (see notes below)

Death Notice/Obituary:

Family Details:

Frederick was born in about 1877 in Barnard Castle to Henry Beer (from Little Chetser, Derbyshire) and Catherine. At the time of the 1891 Census, the family were living in Startforth and by 1901 were living at the Bowes Museum, where Fred's father was the Caretaker. Fred had an older sister and bothers, Frances Hannah, John William and Horace (see separate entry), and younger sisters, Catherine and Rebecca. Frederick's nephew, Henry Edward James Beer, Horace's son, also served in the war (see separate entry)

Fred married Mary Dent Beer, and, by 1911, the couple had a daughter called Kathleen.

Notes:

Frederick was a Private, Lance Corporal and ?Corporal in the Volunteer Force from 9.3.1893 - 2.4.1908. In April 1908, he joined the Territorial Forces and was promoted to Sergeant. He was 'Embodied' on 5.8.1914 and served in the Home Service in Ripon, Rothbury, Strensell and Scarborough until his demobilisation on 30.1.1919. His army records suggest that he sustained an injury or something of the sort during his military training that required hospitalisation in Newcastle. This may be the reason he spent the war in the Home Service.

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Last Name: The Bowes Museum Roll of Honour (TBM/7/1/12); Private Individual; Ancestry; First Name: Private Individual; Ancestry; Initials: The Bowes Museum Roll of Honour (TBM/7/1/12); Private Individual; Ancestry; Service: The Bowes Museum Roll of Honour (TBM/7/1/12); Private Individual; Ancestry; Ranks: The Bowes Museum Roll of Honour (TBM/7/1/12); Ancestry; Unit: The Bowes Museum Roll of Honour (TBM/7/1/12); Ancestry; Date of Birth Year: Ancestry; Place of Birth: Ancestry; Home Address: The Bowes Museum Roll of Honour (TBM/7/1/12); Private Individual; Ancestry; Civilian Employment: Ancestry; Service Records: The Bowes Museum Roll of Honour (TBM/7/1/12); Family Details: Private Individual; Ancestry; Notes: Private Individual; Ancestry; Teesdale Townships: The Bowes Museum Roll of Honour (TBM/7/1/12); Teesdale Townships: Teesdale Poor Law Union 1914;