Hi All: Harold and his older brother Christopher Beechey from Western Australia were in the A.I.F. in the 1915 Gallipoli landing. Harold (KIA 1917) was one of five Beechey brothers who died in the First World War; from an article & book by Michael Walsh. They were sons of Amy Beechey; her husband Revd Beechey (died 1912) was the rector of St Peter's church Friesthorpe, Lincolnshire which has a tablet to the five dead Beechey brothers. The CWGC website for Harold mentions only three of his brothers who died, (Bernard, Charles and Frank), omitting I think Leonard who has his wife not mother as next-of-kin, although like the others he has Reeve as a second/third forename. Three of the brothers survived, but Chris, half-crippled by a sniper's bullet at Gallipoli, returned to Western Australia and never saw his mother again. Michael Walsh researched another family, the Souls from Gloucestershire, that also lost five brothers in the war, and only found enough material for an article. But for the Beechey family, also affected by the WWI records burnt in WWII, he has records of two who were officers and two with records in the "awesome" Australian War Memorial Museum (see "Ancestors", September 2006 pages 49-52 & "Brothers In War:One family's ultimate sacrifice for king and country" by Michael Walsh; Ebury Press 2006) Yours, John Wilson