BECK, FRANK REGINALD, M.V.O., Capt., 5th Battn. The Norfolk Regiment. (T.F.), s. of the late Edmund Beck, Land Agent to H.M. The King at Sandringham; b. Oxwlch, Co. Norfolk, 3 May, 1861; educ. Elmham County School, Norfolk; was Land Agent at Sandrlngham to H.M. the late King when Prince of Wales, 1891—1901, to King Edward VII. 1901-10, and to H.M. the King from 1910 till his death, and was mainly instrumental in the formation of the Sandringham Company. of Volunteers (E Company., 5th Norfolk Regiment.), of which he was appointed first Capt. 19 May, 1906. He volunteered for foreign service alter the outbreak of war; served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force at the Dardanelles, and was in command of his company during the attack on Anafarta on 12 Aug. 1915. On this day a large party of the Norfolks (including Capt. Beck and many of the Sandringham Company.) disappeared Sir Ian Hamilton’s Despatch], and it is now supposed that they were cut off and killed; but nothing has ever been definitely ascertained as to their fate. He was made a Member of the Victorian Order (4th Class) 28 May, 1901, and created a Knight of the Order of St. Olaf by the King of Norway 13 Nov. 1006. He m. at West. Newton, co. Norfolk, Jan. 1891. Mary Plumpton (Sandringham, Co. Norfolk), dau. of the late Captain Clifford Wilson, of the Connaught Rangers, and 5th Northumberland Fusiilers, and had six children: Edmund Edward Jack. Alice Alexandra Margarotta, Ruth Mary Plunipton, Phyllis Mavis Sophla, May Barbara Joyce and Victoria Olga Joan Merle.

Engine Room Artificer 3rd Class (PO) M/1025, H.M. S/M "E49," Royal Navy. Drowned 12 March 1917 when his submarine hit a German mine and sank with no survivors 12 March 1917. Born 28 April 1887 in Dersingham, Norfolk. Son of Joseph and Annie Copeland. Baptised 4 September 1887 in the parish he was born. Husband of Roberta Copeland, of Foliet House, Poplar Grove, 5th Bank. Middlesboro; son of Annie Copeland, of Park Cottage, Sandringham, Norfolk. Youngest child of six on the 1891 census, aged 3, the family still living in Dersingham. He next appeared on the 1901 census aged 13, living at Park Cottage, West Newton, Norfolk with his parents and older sister. Height 5’5” with brown hair, blue eyes and tattoos of an anchor, laurels and a ship on his chest. His Star, Victory and British war medals were claimed by his widow of just a few short months after his death. No known grave. Commemorated on PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL, Hampshire. Panel 25. Also commemorated on Roll of Honour at West Newton.

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