Douglas Beverley (1918-1969) [4616375, Sergeant (later Lance-Sergeant), 2/7th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment]
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- born 15 November 1918 (Q4 1918 Huddersfield née Bower)
- son of George Henry Beverley & Kate (née Bower)
- married Mona Flounders (from Scarborough?) in 1958 (Q1 1958 Huddersfield)
- died 17 December 1969 at a Leeds Hospital
Records:
- 1921 Census (FindMyPast) – 11 Fern Street, Birkby (father: firework maker at Standard Fireworks, Crosland Moor)
- 1939 Register (FindMyPast) – Birkby Lodge Road, Huddersfield (parents)
Notes:
- mentioned in Dispatches (London Gazette 21 February 1946)
- involved with local am dram after the war
- employed as the Mayor of Huddersfield’s secretary
Articles:
- Huddersfield Examiner (07/Sep/1940) – Local Soldiers Now Reported Prisoners
- Huddersfield Daily Examiner (30/Dec/1940) – On the Home Front: “The Dukes” in their Scottish Home
- Huddersfield Examiner (05/May/1945) – Back Home from Prison Camps
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Huddersfield Examiner (10/Feb/1962):
Corporation appointments approved by Council
MR. FRANK DICKINSON (left) and MR. DOUGLAS BEVERLEY, who are to take up duties in the Huddersfield Town Clerk’s Department on April 1 as chief clerk and Mayor’s secretary respectively.
Their appointment to these posts on the retirement of Mr. William Stoney was on Wednesday confirmed by the Town Council.
Mr. Dickinson, who lives at 8, Link Road, Marsh, began his employment in the Town Clerk’s Department in 1932. He has been on the executive committee of the Huddersfield branch of NALGO and is the golf section secretary of that organisation. He has been a member of the Longley Park Golf Club.
During the war he served in the Royal Navy from 1940 to 1946, mainly on minesweeper duties.
Mr. Beverley, 91, Heaton Road. Paddock, entered local government service in 1934 in the Stationery Department, then moved to the Waterworks Department, where he remained until the war. He joined the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment and was taken prisoner in France in 1940.
He was interned in a camp in Poland, mentioned in dispatches for service with escape organisations, and escaped in 1945. making his way back to this country via Russia.
Mr Beverly returned to Corporation service in the Town Clerk’s Department in 1947. He is secretary of Hillhouse Methodist Church and for a time was associated with the Huddersfield Society Light Opera in several of whose productions he took part.
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (17/Dec/1969):
Mr. Douglas Beverley
Mayor’s Secretary dies, aged 51
Mr. Douglas Beverley, the Mayor of Huddersfield’s Secretary, died early today in a Leeds hospital. He was fifty-one.
Mr. Beverley, of 8, South Cross Road, Cowcliffe, had been in local government since 1934 and was appointed Mayor’s Secretary in April, 1962.
He worked first in the Stationery Department and then in the Waterworks Department, where he remained until the last war, when he joined the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment.
Escaped
In 1940 he was taken prisoner in France and interned in a camp in Poland. He was subsequently mentioned in dispatches for organising escapes and in 1945 he made his own escape and returned to this country via Russia.
Mr. Beverley returned to Corporation service in the Town Clerk’s Department in 1947.
He was a former secretary of Hillhouse Methodist Church and in recent times had been associated with Cowcliffe Methodist Church. As a member of the Huddersfield Light Opera Society he had taken parts in a number of their productions.
Mr. Beverley leaves a widow.
The funeral, at Fartown Trinity Methodist Church on Monday afternoon, will be followed by private cremation in Huddersfield.
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