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60 Rock Road, Eggesford/Eccesford

History of 60 Rock Road

1911

not in census

In the Cambridge Daily News 15/5/1917 it was reported that the son of Augustus John and Elizabeth Pavey Beaumont, 2nd Lt Oswald Percy Beaumont of the Middlesex Regiment, was seriously wounded and in hospital in Rouen. He has been a student at the Perse School.

Claude Leopold Beaumont: born 1880, lance sergeant 550540 with the City of Westminster Rifles, 16th London Regiment. On 1st July 1916 in the Battle of the Somme he was reported missing believed dead. His body was recovered in 1928 and identified by a locket.

Edgar Beaumont served with the Salonica Force.

Their father, Augustus John, formerly a teacher for many years in Harston, died in August 1917.

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