BORN CROMER, NORFOLK 1869. SON OF CHARLES & ANN BEASY, WITHERNSEA. HUSBAND OF HARRIET A. BEASY, AT 53 WALLIKER STREET, ANLABY ROAD, HULL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE JOHN BEASY 12/604. Born in Cromer, Norfolk on 15th December 1868 John was the seventh of twelve children to Charles and Ann Beasy. A Railway Agent by trade he lived with his wife Harriet, their two children John and Ethel and the couple’s adopted daughter Dolly in Hull and Withernsea, East Yorkshire. John had already served in the army having spent a year in the Norfolk Battalion, so joining the fight for King and Country would hold no mystery for him though at the age of 46 he could have avoided being mobilized had he wished. His health was already failing when he enlisted on 25th September 1914 and joined the 12th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Sportsmen’, 3rd Hull Pals but no doubt they turned a blind eye to a willing volunteer. It soon caught up with him. Lieutenant Edwards of the RAMC attended him for chronic renal trouble and discharged him, though passed him fit for Home Service. John’s health continued to deteriorate at home and a Dr Sproulle attended him on 31st January 1915 finding him suffering from severe uralmia. John died of uralmic coma leading to heart failure the day after. John Beasy is buried in Withernsea Cemetery; he was 47 years old. He is commemorated on the Great Eastern Railway Memorial, Liverpool Street Station, London, with 1,388 employees lost in Ww1.
