BENJAMIN BEESON

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
SURNAME:Beeson
FORENAMES:Benjamin
BORN:1825 [or 1830/1831 Census Returns]
AT:Croydon Surrey or [Gaywood Norfolk Census Returns]
OCCUPATION[S]:.
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FATHER:.
MOTHER:.
SIBLINGS:.
OTHER RELATIONS:.
NOTES:.
1st REGIMENT NO:1570 [11th Hussars]
2nd REGIMENT NO:1570 [4LD]
ENLISTED:Nov 1852
ATTESTED:.
HEIGHT AT ENLISTMENT:.
TROOP NO:.
TROOP CAPTAIN:.
RANK:1858: Private
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MEDALS:Crimea, ABIS clasps
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OTHER DUTIES:.
TRANSFERRED FROM:11th Hussars 16 07 1858
TRANSFERRED TO:.
NOTES:According to Honour the Light Brigade transferred from 11th Hussars to the 12th Lancers on 01 03 1861 and was discharged in 1864.
He rode in the Charge of the Light Brigade with the 11th Hussars.
He is recorded as having attended the first Balaclava Banquet on 25 10 1875, and annual Balaclava dinners in 1890, 1895 and 1899.
Member of the Balaclava Commemoration Society from 1879 and signed the Loyal Address in 1887.
Honour the Light Brigade makes no mention of Beeson's service with the 4th Light Dragoons.
The 4LD Pay and Muster Rolls don't show him leaving the regiment prior to 1867, but he is not included in the regimental roll taken at the time the regiment departed for India in October 1867.
DISCHARGED TO OUT PENSION:.
MEDICAL REASON:.
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DISCHARGED:1864
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COMPLETED LIMITED SERVICE:.
POST DISCHARGE MILITARY SERVICE:.
POST DISCHARGE OCCUPATION[S]:A beneficiary of financial assistance from the T.H. Roberts Relief Fund.
Police officer for 26 years
Resided at Sanderstead Road, Brighton Road, South Croydon
DIED:25 12 1908 Epsom
BURIED:Buried in All Saints churchyard, Sanderstead, Surrey
WILL:.
BENEFICIARY:.
NEXT OF KIN:.
PRIZE MONEY:.
NOTES:.
1ST WIFE:Jane Jenkin
BORN:c1839 Cornwall Marazion
MARRIED:1Q 1868 Westminster Ref. 1a 529
DIED:4Q 1883 aged 45 years Croydon Ref. 2a 115
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CHILD:Jane
BORN:c1869 Westminster Middlesex
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CHILD:Benjamin
BORN:c1871 Streatham Surrey
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CHILD:Thomas
BORN:c1873 Sanderstead Surrey
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CHILD:Frances
BORN:c1874 Sanderstead Surrey
BAPTISED:07 06 1874 Sanderstead Surrey
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CHILD:Emily
BORN:c1876 Sanderstead Surrey
BAPTISED:02 01 1876 Sanderstead Surrey
NOTES:.
1881 CENSUS:Surrey Sanderstead District 3
Ref. RG11/807
Police Station
Benjamin Beeson, Head, M, 51, Police Constable [Mounted], Norfolk Gaywood
Jane Beeson, Wife, M, 42, Cornwall Marazion
Jane Beeson, Dau, 12, Scholar, Middlesex Westminster
Benjamin Beeson, Son, 10, Scholar, Surrey Streatham
Thomas Beeson, Son, 8, Scholar, Surrey Sanderstead
Frances Beeson, Dau, 7, Scholar, Surrey Sanderstead
Emily Beeson, Dau, 5, Scholar, Surrey Sanderstead
1891 CENSUS:Surrey Sanderstead District 3
Ref. RG12/585
Sanderstead
Benjamin Beeson, Head, Widowed, 60, Police Constable, Employed, Norfolk Gaywood
Jane Beeson, Dau, S, 22, Middlesex Westminster
Benjamin Beeson, Son, S, 20, Gardener [Domestic], Employed, Surrey Streatham
Emily Beeson, Dau, S, 15, Teacher, Board-School, Employed, Surrey Sanderstead
1901 CENSUS:Surrey Croydon District 18
Ref. RG13/637
23 Sanderstead Road
Benjamin Beeson, Head, Widr, 71, Police Pensioner, Norfolk Gaywood
Jane Beeson, Dau, S, 32, Housekeeper [at home], London Westminster
TNA SOURCES:WO/12/663
BL SOURCES:.
OTHER SOURCES:Ancestry.com Census Returns
IGI
Honour the Light Brigade
Brigade: The Further Adventures of Lestrade by M. J. Trow [novel] pub. 2000
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4th Light Dragoons Index

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