Military service
Service number:
B/43768
Age:
21
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Lanark & Renfrew Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 25, 1923
Pelham, Ontario
Enlistment:
August 29, 1942
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
December 16, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V, A, 4.
Additional information
Son of Levi Roscoe Beckett and Olive Alda Beckett, of Dunville, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
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Photo of JOHN WILLIAM ROSS BECKETT
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Biography
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Letter
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Attestation paper
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Circumstances of death
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Grave marker
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Grave marker
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Envelope
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Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the St. Catharines Standard cJanuary 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal John William Ross Beckett
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 246 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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