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Military service
Service number:
117133
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
2nd Mounted Rifles
Birth:
October 10, 1896
Enlistment:
Red Deer, Alberta
Death:
September 29, 1916
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Son of John E. and F. J. Beckett, of Waubaushene, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Gordon Beckett
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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) -
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Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens ... May 2022 -
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Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens ... May 2022 -
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Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens ... May 2022
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 52 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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