Notes
He was enrolled into Worcester College, Oxford in 1910 and, as the college archives record, 'Lionel Beach matriculated in 1910, and while at Oxford was a prominent member of the College Boat Club; he rowed in the 1914 Torpid crew which achieved 6 bumps. He also joined the Oxford University Officer Training Corps and in 1914 was promoted to Lance-Corporal. Lionel Beach joined the army at the outbreak of war and served in Gallipoli in 1915 and then in Egypt and Palestine from 1916 to 1918. His BA was conferred in absence in October 1916, after he had joined the army. He was awarded the Distinguished Service award in August 1917 and also mentioned in dispatches that year. He was severely wounded in action near Jerusalem in December 1917 and invalided back to England in March 1918, where he remained in hospital until the 9th of November. Captain Lionel Beach died of influenza on 28 November 1918.'