St. Mary’s vicar, Arthur Adam Taylor Crosse, writes in the Waxham Deanery Magazines, June 1918:

“We have unfortunately more sad events to record this month. The death of Corpl. Clarence O. Beales, of the Norfolk Regiment, was a great shock and grief to us all. He was killed in France with many of his comrades by a shell which hit the house where he was billeted. He survived his mother by about ten days. He had been married only two days before returning to the front, and we feel very deeply for his young widow, who is well known to us all. Clarence Beales was a fine boy, liked and respected by all who knew him; he was a member of our Church choir, and we shall miss him very much. A special service held in his memory was attended by a large number of relatives and friends.”

David Belsten