BORN BRADFORD 1887. SON OF BENJAMIN BEANLAND (1862-1941) & LYDIA BARRACLOUGH (1864-1945), OF 113 WATERLOO ROAD, MIDDLESBOROUGH AND 99 SEVERN STREET, HULL. SON OF AN INSURANCE AGENT. HE HAD TWO BROTHERS, BOTH KILLED IN THE WAR AND THREE SISTERS, AMANDA, BEATRICE AND ELSIE. HE LIVED IN HULL AT 11 ALEXANDRA AVENUE, ARUNDLE STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. SERVED IN THE HULL PALS IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. KILLED AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, THE SAME DAY AS HIS BROTHER, CORPORAL, HENRY BEANLAND. THEIR DEATHS WERE REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 11/08/1917.
THEIR OLDER BROTHER, PTE, WALTER BEANLAND, WAS A PROFESSIONAL SOLDIER, SERVING WITH 1ST NFUS AND WAS KILLED ON 14/09/1914, AGED 28.
PRIOR TO WAR ARTHUR WAS A LABOURER ON ALEXANDRA DOCKS. HE WAS MARRIED WITH FIVE CHILDREN, THE ELDEST SIX YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON THE 13TH DECEMBER 1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HE IS BURIED AT EUSTON ROAD CEMETERY, COLINCAMPS, SOMME, FRANCE. HE LEFT A WIDOW AND FIVE CHILDREN.
