 Complete the following phrase:  Educated at Windlesham House School, Malvern College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Beauman was commissioned as a second lieutet into the 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment in 1908. Having served in South Africa before the First World War, Beaumans battalion was amongst the first units of the British Expeditionary Force BEF which went to France in August 1914: the Old Contemptibles. After being invalided home in November 1914, he returned to the front in January 1915 when he served as Staff Captain, Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General, and then acting lieutet colonel of the 1st Battalion of the South Staffordshires. In May 1918, he took command of the 69th Brigade on the Italian Front. He was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order DSO for an action during the 