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Harold Creighton Beatty

In memory of:

Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty

July 6, 1942

Military Service

Service Number:

R/75332

Age:

27

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

#22 Operational Training Unit

Citation(s):

Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45 and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp.

Additional Information

Born:

November 24, 1914
Donalda, Alberta

Enlistment:

November 22, 1940
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Son of Robert Henry Beatty and Ina Ellen (née Brown) Beatty, of Belbeck, Saskatchewan. He stated he was a night clerk at a hotel and he enjoyed photography, skating, playing hockey, swimming and tennis. He also played the trumpet. He was a member of the Provincial Baseball Championship Team of 1936. He also served in the Prince Albert and Battleford Volunteers of the Active Militia from 2 November 1934 to 18 May 1940 as a Corporal Signaller.

Commemorated on Page 57 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

HEREFORD CEMETERY
Herefordshire, United Kingdom

Grave Reference:

Joint grave 5640. Plot A. (C. of E.)

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Newspaper clipping– Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me

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    Newspaper clipping – Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Flight Sergeant Harold Creighton Beatty is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens

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    Memorial – Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Cemetery– F/S Beatty, age 28, was a Wireless/Air Gunner training on #22 Operational Training Unit. Wellington aircraft was carrying practice bombs and reconnaissance flares when It flew into some low cloud and crashed a few feet from the summit of a Mountain at Cerric, Breconshire. He is buried in the Hereford Cemetery, Herefordshire, England. The other crew members were F.S. E. E. Mittell F.S. J. B. Kemp Sgt. J. P. Hayes Sgt. K. Yuill From They Shall Grow Not Old: Les Allison, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc.

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    Cemetery – F/S Beatty, age 28, was a Wireless/Air Gunner training on #22 Operational Training Unit. Wellington aircraft was carrying practice bombs and reconnaissance flares when It flew into some low cloud and crashed a few feet from the summit of a Mountain at Cerric, Breconshire. He is buried in the Hereford Cemetery, Herefordshire, England. The other crew members were F.S. E. E. Mittell F.S. J. B. Kemp Sgt. J. P. Hayes Sgt. K. Yuill From They Shall Grow Not Old: Les Allison, Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum Inc.

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