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NAME:                      Beale, Albert Edward
RANK:                      Sergeant
UNIT:                      Labour Corps    (formerly 91250 12th Labour Battalion, Devonshire Regiment)
BATTALION ETC:             148th Company
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         91250  (formerly 24265)
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    Accidentally killed 8th April 1919 premature explosion of mills hand grenade as being removed from bottom of a row boat
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Hamel Military Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, Somme, France
OTHER INFORMATION:         Age 23. Attested 26th February 1916, mobilized 4th April 1916.
                           Son of James (or John) and Elizabeth Beale of 4 Cecil Avenue, Shirley, Southampton,
                           later (mother deceased) father living at 2 Osterley Road, Peartree, Bitterne.
                           (Both names used of father in pension records)