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[Post New]30/11/2018 20:45:24
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I'm looking for any information on a Clifford Beacham - thought to have been an instructor at Achnacarry.

Any information would be extremely useful...

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[Post New]30/11/2018 22:31:59
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Nick,

Clifford Thomas BEACHAM
Born in 1925 Wincanton, Somerset.
Married 1945 Kilmallie, Inverness
Died 2000 Fort William age 74

In 1975 he was listed as a director of the Palace Hotel, Fort William
also Managing Director of M.Beacham & Sons Builders

Engagement notice in the Western Gazette 5th October 1945, states that he is a Corporal in the Royal Marines.

Guy

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[Post New]01/12/2018 09:19:55
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Might be an idea to ask Willie Hervo.

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[Post New]01/12/2018 11:03:00
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I wonder could this be the same Clifford Beacham with the middle name initials T.G.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doffcocker/6896205710

Pete Rogers, son of LSgt Joe Rogers MM & nephew of TSM Ken McAllister. Both No2 Commando.
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[Post New]01/12/2018 11:42:48
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C.T.G. Beacham are the initials on the engagement notice.

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[Post New]01/12/2018 21:07:04
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Thanks Guy & Pete,

Great work, thank you - I will pass that on (to Willie Hervo) ;)

What a fantastic network we have here...

Nick
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[Post New]02/12/2018 17:33:23
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I was talking to Willie Hervo and he wrote "Hi Bill I was talking to his daughter Margaret and she was telling me he was an instructor at Achnacarry. Next time i see her i will ask for a photo."

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[Post New]02/12/2018 20:34:00
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Hi Bill,

It was Willie who contacted me in the first place and for whom I was making the enquiries...

Nick
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[Post New]03/12/2018 10:57:08
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Thanks Nick well done.

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[Post New]07/08/2021 21:23:24
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A newspaper cutting of Clifford Beacham meeting HM The Queen Mother. Photo courtesy of his grandson John MacDonald.
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Pete Rogers, son of LSgt Joe Rogers MM & nephew of TSM Ken McAllister. Both No2 Commando.
God and the Soldier, all men adore, In time of danger and not before.
When the danger is passed and all things righted, God is forgotten, and the Soldier slighted.

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[Post New]07/08/2021 21:25:24
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Clifford Beacham is named on this plaque at Claggan at the foot of Ben Nevis:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doffcocker/6896205710
Pete Rogers, son of LSgt Joe Rogers MM & nephew of TSM Ken McAllister. Both No2 Commando.
God and the Soldier, all men adore, In time of danger and not before.
When the danger is passed and all things righted, God is forgotten, and the Soldier slighted.

**** nb. I no longer monitor the pm facility ****
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