Biography – Private Frank Thomas Beeston

Family situation

• Born in Betley, the son of Alfred James and Elizabeth (nee Wood) in about 1923.
• He had 12 siblings and for some time the family lived in Checkley Lane.

Service

• Frank joined the Cheshire Regiment in 1938 when he was 17 and a half.
• Later on he went Absent Without Leave (“AWOL”) for a time, but joined the West Yorkshires under his brother Reginald’s name.
• He fought in the Far East theatre and died in Burma on 15^th February 1944 aged 21.

Buried

• He is buried in Taukkyan War Cemetery outside Rangoon in grave No. 5.D.19.