BORN HULL 1891. SON OF THOMAS BEADLE (1857-1926) & THE LATE EMMA BEADLE (1860-1912) OF 7 BRIGHT’S TERRACE, BRIGHT STREET AND SOUTHCOATES LANE. ONE OF THIRTEEN CHILDREN. THREE BROTHERS SERVED IN THE WAR. A GARDENER. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. SERVED WITH THE 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS REPORTED MISSING IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 5TH DECEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH.* KILLED ON THE 10/03/1917, AGED 26. HE WAS BURIED ON THE SOMME. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “SLEEP ON DEAR SON YOU HAVE LEFT A SINFUL WORLD BEHIND”.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 19TH MARCH 1917, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE, THOMAS ARTHUR BEADLE 11/754. Born in 1891, Thomas was the fifth of thirteen children to Thomas and Emma Beadle of Southcoates Lane, Hull. A Docker before the war, Thomas joined the queue outside City Hall on 8th September 1914 and joined the fledgling 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. Military life doesn’t appear to have suited him quite as well as some, and he was disciplined on three occasions for overstaying a pass, talking on parade and being drunk whilst on a pass in town all before he’d finished training. He served in Egypt over the winter of 1915 and arrived in Marseilles on March 8th 1916 heading north to the trenches of the Western Front. Being stood in water day in, day out didn’t suit Thomas either and he was twice hospitalised with trench foot in the first weeks of his life in France. Thomas was wounded in the abdomen on 5th March 1917 and evacuated from the front line to 4th Casualty Clearing Station where he died of wounds five days later. Five days with an abdominal wound is more than I care to consider, he must have suffered terribly. Thomas is buried at Varennes Military Cemetery; he was 26 years old.
