Eric Paton's Story.
Birkenhead News 06 April 1918
DEATH OF CAPT. E. P. BEAUMONT.
The injuries sustained by Captain Eric Paton Beaumont M.C., of the King’s Liverpool Regt., in the fighting on March 22nd, have unfortunately proved fatal. His father the Rev. Luke Beaumont (formerly minister of Rock Ferry Congregational Church, now of Brighouse, Yorkshire) received on Wednesday the sad intelligence that he succumbed on the previous day, April 2nd. The case was a grave one from the first, the danger arising mainly from a very serious abdominal wound, and there being also two wounds in the legs. Capt. Beaumont was under treatment in No. 8 General Hospital, Rouen, and two operations were performed in the hope of saving his life.
Great sympathy will be felt with Mr. and Mrs. Beaumont in this severe bereavement. Captain Beaumont who was 22 years of age July last, had previously been wounded in August, 1916 – shrapnel injury to the head while on night patrol duty. As a boy he spent some years at Birkenhead Institute (as did his brother, Second-Lieut. L. C. Beaumont, who is also with the forces), afterwards going to Taunton School, and from there to Pembroke College, Oxford, where he held a scholarship for £100, as well as £40 from Taunton.