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Citation(s);
Military service
Age:
21
Rank:
Captain
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
14th Bn.
Birth:
August 11, 1895
North Sydney, Nova Scotia
Enlistment:
May 16, 1915
Aldershot, Nova Scotia
Death:
September 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of William and Catherine Beaton, of North Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Additional citations
Military Cross
Digital gallery of Captain William Evan Beaton
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Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Memorial
These two photos are of one side of the Beaton family headstone located in Lakeside Cemetery, North Sydney, Nova Scotia. -
Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
The Evening Mail - Halifax, 1 May 1918
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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