What is recorded here
This blue commemorative plaque records: 2nd Lt. Ernest Frederick Beal V.C. The Yorkshire Regiment born here 1883 killed in action Saint-Leger 1918 Recorded plaque organisation: City of Brighton & Hove.
Ernest Beal was a British Army officer who received the Victoria Cross for his bravery during World War I; he was posthumously awarded the medal after being killed in action at Saint-Leger, France, in 1918.
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