Arthur Beer

Lieutenant Arthur Henry Beer, MC was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.

He was born in 1895, in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, the son of Walter, a cotton merchant originally of New Orleans, and German-born Lina Beer (née Stern). Beer attended Uppingham School, where he belonged to the Junior Division Officer Training Corps, and was commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery on 14 November 1914.

Beer was dispatched to the Western Front in September 1915. He died on 21 April 1918, of wounds received, while serving with the 275th Brigade, RFA. In July, Beer received a posthumous Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry. His citation, published in the London Gazette on 23 July 1918, reads:

'For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When all communications were cut and runners could not get through to the batteries, this officer volunteered to go forward, and at great personal risk went round all the batteries, collecting information and arranging for reinforcements. Later, while reconnoitring new positions, he was severely wounded.'

He is buried in Lapugnoy Military Cemetery.

References

• Ancestry.co.uk.
• Beer, Arthur Henry, cwgc.org. Retrieved 11 July 2013.