Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Gustavus Beckett
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Beckett,
Samuel Gustavus
Date of birth: 1869-12-02
Place of birth: Toronto Ontario Canada
Next of kin: Wife; Florence Ethel Fletcher Beckett; 404 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Marital status: married
Occupation (attested): Architect
Occupation (normalized): Building Architect
Address:
404 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-03-01
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Villers Station Cemetery, VII. D. 1.
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: NA
Highest Rank:
Lieutenant-Colonel
(75th Battalion)
Rank detail
Lieutenant-Colonel, 75th Battalion, Infantry (Army). 1915-07-11 to 1917-03-01
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Trench Raid near Carency
Awards
Mentioned in Despatches 'A' List
RESEARCH INFORMATION
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CWGC ID: 59359
LAC ID:
33410
Service file: B0576-S022
Uploader's Notes: Son of Edward and Mary Ann Butland Beckett, of Toronto; husband of Florence Ethel Fletcher Beckett, of 404, Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Canada. He was a business partner with Lieutenant Colonel William Craven Vaux Chadwick in the architectural firm of Chadwick and Beckett.
Uploader's Research notes:
Source: LAC files
Mentioned in "Somewhere in France, The Letters of John Cannon Stothers", p. 43.
Sailed with 75th Battalion aboard SS Empress of Britain from Halifax to Liverpool, March 29 to April 09, 1916. The battalion was posted to Bramshott Camp on arrival.
75th Battalion proceeded to France aboard SS Mona's Queen from Southampton to Havre, August 11/12, 1916.
Killed in action while trying to rally his troops during the disastrous trench raid of March 01, 1917 near Carency.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2013-11-20