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Military service
Rank:
Second Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Garrison Artillery
Division:
143rd Siege Bty.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 30, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
S. V. D. 7.
Additional citations
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Second Lieutenant Grover Cleveland Beaton
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Honour Roll
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Roll of Honour
"This Roll of Honour has been prepared as a permanent tribute to those men of the teaching profession in Ontario, who enlisted in connection with the Great War." Source: The Roll of Honour of the Ontario Teachers Who Served in the Great War 1914-1918 (The Ryerson Press: Toronto, 1922). The 1914-1918 Roll of Service for Ontario Teachers contains 851 names. 101 died as a result of their military service. The information on this Honour Roll may differ from other sources as it was compiled by the Department of Education in Toronto, Ontario, from "...varied and numerous sources, that mistakes are inevitable." -
Photo of Grover Beaton
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement Fourth Edition 1918 published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto. Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto was built in 1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. Their names are carved on the Memorial Screen. Photo: K. Parks. -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Owen Sound Collegiate Institute Memorial Tablet. Image courtesy of Owen Sound Collegiate (OSCVI) Digital Soldier Library. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun April 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun September 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 583 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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