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Military service
Service number:
V/17026
Age:
19
Rank:
Able Seaman
Force:
Navy
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Division:
H.M.C.S. Margaree
Death:
October 22, 1940
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 7.
Additional information
Son of Lorne Edward and Pearl Beattie, of Lucan, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Able Seaman William Ironside Beattie
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Photo of William Beattie
Bill Beattie was born January 16, 1921, the Son of Lorne Edward and Pearl Beattie of Lucan. He attended Lucan's Public and High Schools. He enlisted at HMCS Prevost in London, on May 3, 1939 and was trained as a technician, operating electronic equiment locating enemy submarines. He participated in the evacuation of Narvik, Norway and served on North Atlantic patrols about the corvette, HMCS Saguenay until August 1940, when he was transferred to the destroyer HMCS Margaree. He was aboard the Margaree on October 22, 1940 in the Atlantic, when a large merchant vessel cut the Margaree in half. One hundred and forty two of the 173 sailors were lost. -
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Newspaper Clipping
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Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
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From the Toronto Star October 1940. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman William Ironside Beattie
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman William Ironside Beattie
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman William Ironside Beattie
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman William Ironside Beattie
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman William Ironside Beattie
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman William Ironside Beattie
Digital gallery of
Able Seaman William Ironside Beattie
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Commemorated on:
Page 10 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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