2nd Lieutenant Robert Anthony BEALE was born in Deesa, India on the 14th November 1897, the only son of Colonel Anthony BEALE, Indian Staff Corps, of Pembroke House, Cheltenham and of 3 Freeland Road, Ealing, London. He attended Cheltenham College between September 1908 and September 1914, going straight to Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He received his commission in the Gloucestershire Regiment in June 1915, qualifying as an Instructor in drill, musketry and bombing whilst with the 3rd Special Reserve Battalion. Embarking to France on the 17th September 1915, he joined the 1st Gloucestershire Regiment later that month and served in the trenches until his death on 17th September 1917. He was killed when his battalion took over a section of the front line from the South West Borderers, south of Barleux. He is buried in Assevillers New British Cemetery, Plot XXII, Row D, Grave 9 and is commemorated in the chapel at Sandhurst.
Memorials: Cheltenham Borough Cenotaph & St Philip & St James Church, Grafton Road, Cheltenham.
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