FEAR Jeffery Beauchamp

Additional information on the memorial: Private

J.B. Fear 1st/1st Worcester Yeomanry, 1st Draft, embarked at Devonport 23rd October 1915 for service with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, disembarked at Mudros 6th November 1915, disembarked at Alexandria, Egypt on 30th November 1915. Killed in action on 23rd April 1916.

Source for additional information: The Yeomanry Cavalry of Worcestershire 1914 €“ 1922.

Jeffery Beauchamp Fear was born in Worcester in 1896, the second child and only son of Samuel and Sarah Fear (nee Griffiths) who had married in 1892. The family lived at 17 Tunnel Hill and Samuel worked as a dairyman/milk purveyor. Prior to joining the army, Jeffery worked as a check clerk for the Co-Operative Society. He enlisted in the Worcestershire Yeomanry in 1915 and was sent with his battalion in November 1915 to take part in the final stages of the campaign in the Balkans. After withdrawing from Gallipoli in December 1915 the battalion returned to Egypt. They were to form part of the defence of the Suez Canal and it was here on Easter Sunday, 23rd April 1916 that they came under a ferocious onslaught from Turkish troops. Jeffery Fear was killed in action during the attack.

A photograph of Trooper J.B. Fear can be found in Berrow’s Worcester Journal Supplement, Saturday 13th May 1916, available at Worcestershire Archives.