First World War British Victory Medal - Private Percy John Frederick Beeching, Cameron Highlanders, late Lovat Scouts
Victory Medal - 5611 PTE. P. J. F. BEECHING. CAMERONS.
Percy John Frederick Beeching, born in Lambeth, London in 1897, enlisted into the Army at London on 21 October 1915, aged 20. A clerk by occupation, he initially attested for the Lovat Scouts, but after ten or so months he was transferred to the Cameron Highlanders, serving under the regimental numbers 6238 and later S/40862.
Beeching underwent training at the Cameron Highlanders’ depots before proceeding to France, where he was posted to the 4th Entrenching Battalion of the Camerons, and then the 5th Battalion, a unit that spent the second half of 1916 and 1917 in intense front-line service on the Western Front. His service papers record several periods of hospitalisation and return to duty, a pattern typical of infantrymen operating in the heavy fighting of late 1916 as the Somme offensive continued into its attritional later phase.
Beeching continued to serve during the final advances of 1918 before being transferred to Class Z Reserve in 1919 and finally demobilised on 31 March 1920.
After the war, Percy returned to civilian life in London, marrying in 1921 and later settling in Sussex. He died in Newton Abbot, Devon, in 1976.
A good Victory Medal to a man of the Cameron Highlanders who saw active service on the Western Front with the 5th Battalion and saw earlier service with the Lovat Scouts.
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