Rowland Auriol James BEECH
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- Lieutenant,Rowland Auriol James BEECH 16th The Queen's Lancers, killed in action near Ypres 21st February 1915 aged 26. He was the elder son of Lieutenant Colonel, Rowland John Beech and Adelaide Frederica. He rests with other brother officers in the cemetery, Menin Roar, Ypres.
The enemy having blown up a mine under the trenches of a squadron of his regiment on his left at dawn. He at once took the men near him to their assistance and to repel the inrushing enemy, he placed his men in a trench but remained crouched outside himself to observe their fire. he was killed instantaneously. In 1914 he was the first list of officers mentioned in despatches.
A captain in his regiment wrote. "He died splendidly helping to save what looked like a very critical situation for some minutes."
He live with his parents at Brandon Hall, near Coventry and is commemorated on a memorial is St Werburgh Church, Kingsley, Staffordshire
