James Edward BEASLEY DCM

He was the husband of Olive Elizabeth nee Crannage. He fought in the Great War in France as Private B/3121, Rifle Brigade.

He is at rest with his wife in Knutsford Cemetery, Cheshire.

Extract from Ancestry of the entry of his DCM award as inserted in the London Gazette dated 22nd January 1916. He was awarded the medal for conspicuous gallantry near Ypres on the 23rd November 1915, when he volunteered to guide a party in an attempt to rescue a wounded officer who was lying out near the German lines. He was the only man remaining of the patrol of which the wounded officer had been in charge, and had already made one unsuccessful attempt to reach him. This time the wounded officer was found and dragged back with great difficulty under heavy rifle and machine gun fire.