Also named on Toowoomba Mothers’ Memorial, St Stephen’s Uniting Church Toowoomba Fallen Soldiers’ Memorial and Independent Order of Rechabites No 3 Roll of Honour.
Brother of 14436 Private William Henry Beasant.
Stanley Beasant arrived in France in May 1916. In August he was reported missing in action at Pozieres. Eleven months later a Court of Enquiry confirmed he had been killed in action on 5 August 1916. Months earlier his parents had learnt of his death in a letter from one of Stanley's army mates. He was only 20.
