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NAME:                      Beard, Alfred Henry
RANK:                      Sergeant
UNIT:                      Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
BATTALION ETC:             2nd Battalion
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         31117  (formerly 12073)
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    Died of wounds 20th April 1918
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Bac-du-Sud British Cemetery, Bailleulval, Pas de Calais, France
OTHER INFORMATION:         Age 23. Son of Henry & Elizabeth Beard, in 1911 family living at Barton, Bidford-on-Avon, Warwickshire.
                           Husband of Ethel May Collins (formerly Beard), of Home Farm Cottage, East End, Lymington, Hants (CWGC).
                           On pension card address is Coombs Gales Bungalow, Lymington, Hants, later East End, Lymington.
                           Married Oct/Nov/Dec 1915 at Portsmouth. Remarried Oct/Nov/Dec 1919 at Lymington to George F Collins.
                           On another pension card, Guardian Miss Beatrice Clapham of 12 Fairweather Cottages, Taunton for illegitimate child.
                           Born: Bedford, Warwicks, Enlisted: Birmingham. Resided: Brockenhurst, Hants.