Military service
Burial/memorial information
Son of Edward and Mary Ann Butland Beckett, of Toronto; husband of Florence Ethel Fletcher Beckett, of 404, Brunswick Avenue, Toronto, Canada.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Gustavus Beckett
Image gallery
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me
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Article includes the story of the death of Lieutenant Colonel Samuel G. Beckett.
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Source: William Perkins Bull. "From Brock to Currie: the military development and exploits of Canadians in general and of the men of Peel in particular, 1791 to 1930." Toronto 1935, pg. 403.
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TORONTO GLOBE online archive 1918 Mar. 21
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Newspaper Clipping - 1915.
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A report on early 1916 military training exercises in Toronto, Ontario.
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The 75th Battalion is perpetuated since World War One in the Toronto Scottish Regiment.<P> Source: Toronto Daily Star early 1918 (courtesy 'Pages of the Past' online archive)
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Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. From the Annie Boyes collection courtesy of the Simcoe County Archives.
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Entrance - Villers Station Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Villers Station Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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The Golden Book (Canadian Military Institute, 1927)
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The Golden Book (Canadian Military Institute, 1927)
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From the Toronto Telegram February 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram March 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 199 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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VILLERS STATION CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Villers-au-Bois is a village in the Department of the Pas-de-Calais, 11 kilometres north-west of Arras. The VILLERS STATION CEMETERY is about 2 kilometres north-west of the village.
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