1914 Star & Bar trio with Memorial Plaque, Private, 13th Hussars, attached to 11th (Prince Albert’s Own) Hussars, killed in action , First Battle of Ypres on 29 October 1914
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1914 Star & Bar trio (Pte. 11/Hrs.) Memorial Plaque (Roland Archibald Stephen Beck)
Killed in action during the First Battle of Ypres on 29 October 1914 attached from the 13th Hussars
No known grave, commemorated Menin Gate Memorial, aged 28
With damaged named card box of issue and outer O.H.M.S. transmission envelope addressed to, ‘Mrs. C. Beck, 13, Pratt Street, Lambeth Road, London, S.E.11. Buckingham Palace enclosure, in card envelope and outer O.H.M.S. transmission envelope similarly addressed for the plaque.
The 13th Hussars were serving in India on the outbreak of war. Presumably odd men at Home were attached for service in France. Beck arrived in France 10/10/1914
