In Memory Of

BEATON, JOHN FREDERICK

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 1920-06-25
Service No:
 125829V
Rank:
 Captain
Regiment:
 Royal Natal Carbineers, S.A. Forces
Former Regiment:
 formerly THA, SAHA
Date of Death:
 1944-07-28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, instantly while supervising the dressing of wounded men at a casualty clearing station when the station received a direct hit from a German heavy caliber artillery shell
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 III. E. 4.
Cemetery:
 FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Country:
 Italy
Additional Information
Son of Frederick James Beaton, late of the Kimberley Regiment WW1, and Agnes Margaret Mary Rita Beaton, of Rayman Lodge, Sherborne Road, Parktown, Johannesburg. Educated at Christian Brothers College, Kimberley. He attested in June 1940 and after a period of officer training was sent to North Africa, attached to the SATC. He returned to SA on leave in 1943 and was then sent to Italy. Born in Kimberley, he was an accountant. He was unmarried and had a sister.