For confirmation:-

BNA Gloucestershire Echo Friday 01 September 1916

LIEUT. G. BEARD

Lieut. George BEARD South Wales Borderers, who has been invalided home to a London hospital with serious scalp wounds after having been at the front less than a month, is the son of Mr T (sic. Should this be E?) BEARD manager of the Redbrook Tinplate Works, Forest of Dean.