Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Edward Beeby a painter, born 1861 in Burbage, Leicestershire and his wife Elizabeth Beeby (nee Beere, married in the 4th quarter of 1887 in the Aston, Warwickshire district), born 1862 in Banbury, Oxfordshire. William Beere Beeby, a schoolboy, was born on the 30th December 1894 and baptised on the 30th January 1895 in St. Nicholas’s Church, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, his siblings were, Thomas William Beere, a coal miner, born in the 3rd quarter of 1884 in Banbury, Edward Richard, a schoolboy, born on the 23rd December 1893 and baptised on the 28th June 1899 in St. Nicholas’s Church, Nuneaton, Ellen Rebecca, a schoolgirl, born on the 29th December1895 and baptised on the 28th June 1899 in St. Nicholas’s Church, Nuneaton and Herbert James Henry, a schoolboy, born on the 29th September 1898, and baptised on the 28th June 1899 in St. Nicholas’s Church, Nuneaton, the latter three siblings were all born in Nuneaton, in March 1901 the family home was at 10, Tennant Street, Nuneaton. In April 1911 William was employed as a shoe trade worker and was residing in the family home at 1, Clarks Yard, Hinckley, Leicestershire, together with his father, a painter, his mother, a tailoress and siblings, Edward, a hosiery trade worker, Ellen, a hosiery trade worker, Herbert, a schoolboy and Henry Woodvill, a schoolboy, born in the 1st quarter of 1905 in Hinckley.
William’s Army enlistment documents do not survive, all that is known of his military service is that he enlisted in Hinckley, Leicestershire into the Leicestershire Regiment, Territorial Force and was allotted the service number 1484, and posted as a Private to that Regiment’s Depot for training, subsequently being posted to the 1/5th Battalion. It was to join this Battalion that he first entered the theatre of war in France on the 25th June 1915. Under the Army Council Instruction of 1917 that promulgated a new numbering system for all Territorial Force units, he was allotted the service number 240142. Nothing further is known of his military service until he was reported to have died on the 30th April 1917 in the 7th Casualty Clearing Station in France from wounds received in action, while serving with the 1/5th Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment. He was buried in Noeux-les-Mines Communal Cemetery in France. William was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
William’s younger brother Herbert, died on the 3rd July 1919, as a result of an accident.