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The Roll lists his address as 21 City Road, and that he was entitled to the 1914 Star medal.
(CWGC records that Private A Beck of the 2nd Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment, regimental number 3/9727, died on 20/11/1914, and is buried in grave I.A.6 at Estaires Communal Cemetery and Extension in France. Soldiers Died in the Great War recorded Albert Beck as a native of St Mark's Parish in Peterborough. The Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects record that he died at Estaires, and that his legatee was Miss Lily Mitchell, in whose favour he had written a Will. His Army Service Record records that, when he enlisted on 25/3/1913, Albert was aged 17 years and 7 months, working as a brickyard labourer. His medals were sent to Miss Lily Mitchell of 21 City Road, Peterborough. The file records his father as Albert Beck of 1 Wiffen Bank, Lincoln).
When his death was announced on 20/2/1915 in the Peterborough Advertiser, Albert was reported to be 20 years old, and was stated to have been due to marry Miss L Mitchell of City Road later that year.